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  • 2006
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2006
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Amma, one of India's most famous "Mahatmas" or spiritual guides, is known internationally for her charitable donations, fight for peace, and work with illiteracy. In 2002, she won the Gandhi King Prize for her work, joining a prestigious group of winners that include, Nelson Mandela and Khofi Annan. This film is a chronicle of her journe...

Directed By: Jan Kounen

Written By: Manuel De La Roche, Jan Kounen

  • 2006
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2006
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 46 m

Darshan: The Embrace

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
55
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
4.9
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Summary Amma, one of India's most famous "Mahatmas" or spiritual guides, is known internationally for her charitable donations, fight for peace, and work with illiteracy. In 2002, she won the Gandhi King Prize for her work, joining a prestigious group of winners that include, Nelson Mandela and Khofi Annan. This film is a chronicle of her journe...

Directed By: Jan Kounen

Written By: Manuel De La Roche, Jan Kounen

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
55
33% Positive
4 Reviews
67% Mixed
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75
Jan Kounen, the maker of Darshan, is a French director with flashy credentials, including music videos, commercials, horror shorts, violent gangster movies ("Dobermann") and offbeat westerns ("Blueberry").
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
75
Sebastien Pentecouteau's startlingly beautiful cinematography lends the film a dreamlike quality and perfectly suits Kounen's mystical subject matter.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
60
Filling our heads with pretty pictures and not much else, Darshan: The Embrace is likely to leave audiences enchanted but unenlightened.
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50
While Amma's teachings of love, inner peace and Karma, or action, resonate in the film -- obviously, Amma is a woman called to God -- her background remains pretty much a mystery. Less National Geographic and more personal history would have added a dimension to "Darshan."
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
50
Unless you're already a true believer, Amma comes across in Darshan as a perfect angel, a frustrating enigma and a rather dull cinematic subject.
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A loving if fawning documentary.
By John McMurtrie FULL REVIEW
40
Werner Herzog's "Wheel of Time" was, in a sense, the Buddhist equivalent of this film, as well as a more illuminating look at the power and transience of ritual.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Productions de la Roche, Tawak Pictures, Arte France Cinéma, Roissy Films, Pegasos Film, Artist Film, Artist Film, On the Road
Release Date Jul 26, 2006
Duration 1 h 46 m
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Website http://www.ocean-films.com/darshan/
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