Sunday, July 21, 2024

THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (1988)

 




















Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Produced by: Saul Zaentz
Based on the novel by: Milan Kundera
Starring: Daniel Day-LewisJuliette BinocheLena OlinDerek de LintErland JosephsonPavel LandovskyDonald MoffatTomek BorkDaniel OlbrychskiStellan SkarsgardAnne LonnbergLeon LissekConsuelo de Haviland

171 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, nudity, scenes of war)

PLOT:
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 accepts their relationship, and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered, and their lives change forever.

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