Brad Pitt does seem to have a way with septets

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2006)

Having starred in "Se7en", Brad Pitt then starred in another 7: "Seven Years in Tibet", about Austrian explorer Heinrich Harrer. Before this movie came out, I had never heard of Harrer, and the movie does a very good job telling his story. It shows how he started out working with the Nazis to try and take over parts of South Asia, but then befriended the Dalai Lama and had a change of heart. So, even though Brad Pitt's Teutonic accent isn't the most believable, the movie does a good job showing how a person can change. The cinematography almost is a character all on its own, with the Tibetan landscape. A very awe-inspiring movie. Also starring David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Victor Wong and Ingeborga Dapkunaite.
On a different note, our German friend who saw the movie with us said that the scenes where Harrer escapes from the British camp were not so detailed in the book.