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CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

January - February 2012

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


Chicago Premiere Facets Film Dialogue

MY REINCARNATION

This epic documentary, 20 years in the making, traces the relationship between Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and his Italian-born son. Director Jennifer Fox (Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman) was working as Rinpoche's secretary when she first met his son in 1989. Eighteen-year-old Yeshi had conflicting feelings about a father whom he saw once a year for three or four days, but whom other people constantly sought out for guidance and counsel. "They see him as a solution", he surmises, "but they forget that he is human." He was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of Rinpoche's uncle and master, and now he feels a great responsibility resting upon his shoulders. His growth from truculent resistance to a measured accommodation of his heritage is watched over by a father fulfilling his own ancestral destiny.

With her signature intimate entry to both family and icons including the Dalai Lama, Fox expertly distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation, and destiny. In a world where indigenous cultures are lost and homogenized every day, My Reincarnation is a rare positive story of cultural transplantation, adaptation and renewal. It is a dramatic tale which is rewarding on many levels: as a study of exile; of Eastern spirituality in the contemporary West; as a classic father/son struggle; and not least as a contemplation of mortality, inheritance and spiritual continuance.

Directed by Jennifer Fox, U.S.A., 2010, 82 mins.

Facets Film Dialogue

Shakta Kaur, Owner/Director, Kundalini Yoga in the Loop (KYL) will be here for a Q&A after the 7 pm screening on Saturday, January 21st.

Joan Forest Mage, Life Force Arts Center & Foundation, will be here for a Q&A after the 7 pm screening on Wednesday, January 25th.

Members of the Midwest Buddhist Temple will be here for a Q&A after the 7 and 9 pm screenings on Friday, January 27th.

Rachel Parrish, Dharma Teacher at the Bohdi Path Buddhist Center, Chicago, will be here for a Q&A after the 7 pm screening on Saturday, January 28th


Official site     New York Times     Los Angeles Times     Slant Magazine

Spirituality & Practice     TimeOut NY     NewCity Chicago     TimeOut Chicago        


Showtimes:
January 20 - February 2
Mondays-Fridays, 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Jan. 21-22 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Jan. 28-29 at 7 & 9 pm

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