Director: Nati Baratz
Producers: Nati Baratz, Arik Bernstein, Ilil Alexander
Screenwriter: Nati Baratz
Star: Tenzin Zopa
MPAA Rating: NR
FilmCritic Rating = 3.0 out of 5 Stars
The new documentary Unmistaken Child, written and directed by first-time director Nati Baratz, takes the search for the returning spirit of the recently passed Geshe Lama Konchong, a praised Rinpoche Lama, as high drama….
At first, the focus is on monk Tenzin Zopa, Konchong’s Heart Disciple and attendant for over 20 years. It is Zopa’s charge to scour the Tsum Valley of Nepal for Konchong’s reincarnated being. According to the remnants of Geshe’s pyre, he had an almost immediate reincarnation and readings by a Taiwanese astrologist give him the hints that the child’s father’s name will start with an “A” and that the letters “Ts” hold a crucial clue to the location. Spiritual quest as scavenger hunt, one may think….
Like upcoming dolphin-activist documentary ‘The Cove’ and last year’s ‘Man on Wire’, Unmistaken Child has the structure and pacing of fiction……What follows is a nimble but rudimentary procedural as this child, now past his first birthday, begins to face counsels, tests, and inquiries into his very being. Baratz’s style is sober and plainspoken, though there is something to be said about how, as the child is examined, the viewer begins to question both the ceremonial aspects of the culture and Baratz’s inclusion.
Read the full insightful Chris Cabin review for “Unmistaken Child” at Filmcritic.com.
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