No one can argue with the fact that Milan Kundera is a genius, and Philip Kaufman all the more for not only adapting his book excellently on screen, but also for keeping its essence.
Through love, hate, passion, obsession, affairs, war, compromises, fights, women, love-making, ...( read more)
Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually acce...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 28, 2006
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September 26, 2008
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a gorgeous adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel of the same name (one of my favorite books). It's the story of Tomas, a surgeon living in Prague in the 1960s. He feels life is light and that his actions have weightless consequences. He goes thr...( read more)
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September 10, 2008
It was more like ?the unbearable anticipation that the end of the film will be soon?! This film seemed to go on forever, without any excitement, in fact, this has to be one of the dullest films ever made and that?s uncharacteristic of both Daniel Day Lewis and Juliette Binoche.
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August 30, 2008
Against the backdrop of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, a Prague doctor and womaniser finds himself in a relationship with the naive young Tereza, whilst still enjoying carnal delights with his artist lover. An intelligent romantic-drama with an insight into the politics o...( read more)
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December 3, 2007
Fantastic, romantic, great story. Turned me on to Kaufman's work. Highly recommended.
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September 5, 2009
woman, man, girl,nature,sex,eros,history,family,being alive,death,politics,art and more...here are so many elements of "being" in this world.
third time to watch,never get bored.
so deep,complicated but simple world is here.
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August 29, 2009
From the book by Milan Kundera comes this 1988 film adaption that takes place during Soviet occupied Prauge in the late 1960s. A young doctor (a young and very handsome Daniel Day-Lewis) with a wandering eye falls in love and marries the sweet innocent girl (Juliette Bincohe). ...( read more)
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July 31, 2009
hmmm.... this is my all time favourite book and alot of its complexity wasn't able to show through in the film, still a great watch nonetheless, perfect cast of characters
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July 8, 2009
The Unbearable Lightness of Being focuses on Tomas (Daniel-Day Lewis), a Don Juanist terrified of commitment and a surgeon at a Prague hospital. He is trapped between his platonic and semi-erotic love of Teresa (Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche), a photographer and his wife ...( read more)
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