The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), directed by Philip Kaufman, is an American cinematic adaptation of the eponymous novel by Milan Kundera, published in 1984. Director Kaufman and screenplay writer Jean-Claude Carrière show Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the Prague Spring of the Communist period, before the Soviet and Warsaw Pact invasion in August of 1968, and detail the moral–political effects and personal consequence...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), directed by Philip Kaufman, is an American cinematic adaptation of the eponymous novel by Milan Kundera, published in 1984. Director Kaufman and screenplay writer Jean-Claude Carrière show Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the Prague Spring of the Communist period, before the Soviet and Warsaw Pact invasion in August of 1968, and detail the moral–political effects and personal consequences upon a bohemian ménage à trois: a medical doctor and his two women.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being introduces Czech brain surgeon Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis), a lothario who is a good medical doctor in Communist Czechoslovakia. His lover, Sabina (Lena Olin), is an equally care-free artist. One day, Dr Tomas leaves Prague to operate on a man in a spa town. There, he meets the waitress Tereza (Juliette Binoche), who dreams of escaping her small town life. She follows him to Prague, and cohabits with him, complicating Tomas's extra-domestic...
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