The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Country: US
Technical: col 172m
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Synopsis:
In Czechoslovakia at the time of the Prague spring a doctor finds it hard to rein in his sex drive when he meets a woman who wants him to herself.
Review:
Jean-Claude Carrière and Kaufman transfer Kundera's novel to the screen in an uncommercial three hour running time and simultaneously produce the first English language continental film (?) The cast is a treat in this regard, and there are moments in the film which come close to Bergman or Tarkovsky in their contemplative beauty: the putting to sleep of a pet dog, the view through a windscreen traversed by rain and wipers prior to an 'accident' we never see.
Country: US
Technical: col 172m
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Synopsis:
In Czechoslovakia at the time of the Prague spring a doctor finds it hard to rein in his sex drive when he meets a woman who wants him to herself.
Review:
Jean-Claude Carrière and Kaufman transfer Kundera's novel to the screen in an uncommercial three hour running time and simultaneously produce the first English language continental film (?) The cast is a treat in this regard, and there are moments in the film which come close to Bergman or Tarkovsky in their contemplative beauty: the putting to sleep of a pet dog, the view through a windscreen traversed by rain and wipers prior to an 'accident' we never see.
Country: US
Technical: col 172m
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Synopsis:
In Czechoslovakia at the time of the Prague spring a doctor finds it hard to rein in his sex drive when he meets a woman who wants him to herself.
Review:
Jean-Claude Carrière and Kaufman transfer Kundera's novel to the screen in an uncommercial three hour running time and simultaneously produce the first English language continental film (?) The cast is a treat in this regard, and there are moments in the film which come close to Bergman or Tarkovsky in their contemplative beauty: the putting to sleep of a pet dog, the view through a windscreen traversed by rain and wipers prior to an 'accident' we never see.