Seven Years in Tibet
1997
**
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer who ended up in Tibet and befriended the young Dalai Lama. This long, bland and self-important but visually beautiful drama is based on his autobiographical book. Brad Pitt gives a wooden performance and only occasionally remembers to speak in his German accent.
