THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (1988) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Philip Kaufman

 

Written by - Jean-Claude Carriére, Philip Kaufman (based on a novel by Milan Kundera)

 

Starring - Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin

 

 

 

"The tale of a love triangle between a womanizing Czech doctor, a seductive artist and a sexually naïve girl set in Prague in the late sixties during the Soviet Invasion. Milan Kundera’s masterpiece novel was deemed by many unfilmable, but Kaufman, within limitations, was still able to make a good, stylish, sexy and worthy adaptation. The stand out sequence is the documentary styled one which reproduces the cruel realities of the invasion."

 

 

Drama, USA