Samsara
Daily at Labia from Friday 5 to Thursday 11 December
Samsara
 | What is more important: satisfying one thousand desires or conquering just one? A film by Pan Nalin , 2001. A spiritual love story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh in the Himalayas. The film Samsara* is a quest: one man’s struggle to find spiritual enlightenment. Indian born filmmaker Pan Nalin makes his directorial debut with this sensual, elegant look at two great passions: sensuality and spirituality. The film authentically depicts typical monastic and nomadic life in Ladakh and transports one to its far-flung world of clear skies, jagged mountains and passionate affairs of the mind and body. Tashi (Shawn Ku) is a gifted young monk who is just completing three years of solitary mediation in the mountains. Sporting long hair and a scraggly beard, Tashi is roused out of his deep mediation and brought back to his monastery by his fellow monks. |
There he rests up to recover his strength, returning to the usual rigors of monastic life. Though he is highly revered for having attained a profound level of enlightenment, Tashi is surprised to discover the sudden awakening of his own sex drive. But how does this all end for Tashi’s quest for the ultimate?While blessing the annual crop, he encounters beautiful peasant girl Pema (Christy Chung) and immediately he falls in love. Arguing that to properly renounce the world he would have to experience it first, he leaves his order and marries Pema. Together they discuss the bliss of union and the joys – and sorrows – of possession. But Tashi is unprepared for the other aspects of everyday life and he realises that life in Samsara is far more complex than he ever imagined. | |
Spectacular imagery and compelling storytelling. FINANCIAL REVIEW
An earthly fable of spirituality, love and longing. AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Ravishing! It’s the landscape that seduces: ethereal, ruthless and chimerical with a beauty as challenging as the harshest dictates of faith. WHO WEEKLY
Daily from Friday 5 to Thursday 11 December - 11.15am, 5.30pm, 8.15pm
(except for Thursday 11 December, no 5.30 or 8.15 screenings)
At Labia on Orange
Book with Labia at 021 424 5927
Running time: 138 minutes
An earthly fable of spirituality, love and longing. AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Ravishing! It’s the landscape that seduces: ethereal, ruthless and chimerical with a beauty as challenging as the harshest dictates of faith. WHO WEEKLY
Daily from Friday 5 to Thursday 11 December - 11.15am, 5.30pm, 8.15pm
(except for Thursday 11 December, no 5.30 or 8.15 screenings)
At Labia on Orange
Book with Labia at 021 424 5927
Running time: 138 minutes
*Samsara: one of many definitions is to keep wandering within the wheel of life and death, an endless cycle of reincarnation. Only by waking up, by becoming enlightened, can a human break break free of that cycle.