The Book of Crystal (1996)
- Original title
- Le Livre de cristal
- Directed by
- Patricia Plattner
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- France, Portugal, Switzerland
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Buddhist texts scholar travels to Sri Lanka to study crystal tablets. His stay gets disrupted by memories of his late wife, the Tamil guerrilla conflict, and meeting a French woman.
contemplativemelancholicslow-burnintrospectivequietatmosphericpoignantgrounded
What happens
Le Livre de cristal est un film franco-luso-suisse réalisé par Patricia Plattner et sorti en 1996. Un grand spécialiste des textes bouddhiques se rend au Sri Lanka pour déchiffrer des tablettes de cristal. Son séjour est perturbé par le souvenir de sa défunte femme, la guérilla tamoule et sa rencontre avec une Française. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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