Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. She wants to reconnect with her roots but is also escaping a deteriorating relationship back home.One of Karma's interviewees is Dhondup, an enigmatic ex-monk who has just escaped from Tibet. He confides in her that his real reason for coming to India is to fulfill his dying mother's last wish, to deliver a charm box to a long-missing resistance fighter.
Dreaming Lhasa has generally received mixed reviews.
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By John Hartl (735) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 03 May 2007
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Dreaming Lhasa was released in 2007 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 19 reviews, giving Dreaming Lhasa (2007) an average rating of 56%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 73%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 67%.
With a score of 56%, Dreaming Lhasa is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2007, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2007 with similar scores include films like Halloween, The Golden Compass and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
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