The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.
- Director: Philip Kaufman
- Genre:Drama / History / Romance
- Runtime:173 minutes
Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis : Tomas
Juliette Binoche : Tereza
Lena Olin : Sabina
Derek de Lint : Franz
Erland Josephson : The Ambassador
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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 sexual affairs.
Tomas asks Sabina to help Tereza find work as a photographer. Tereza is fascinated and jealous as she grasps that Sabina and Tomas are lovers. Her distress about his polygamy is interrupted by the Soviet Army tanks invading Czechoslovakia. Amidst the confusion, Tereza photographs the Soviet invasion, then hands the rolls of film to foreigners to smuggle out to the West. In the event, upon consideration of the coarse reality replacing the Prague Spring, Tomas, Sabina, and Tereza flee Czechoslovakia for Switzerland; first Sabina, then the hesitant Tomas and Tereza.
In Geneva, Sabina meets Franz (Derek de Lint), a married university professor; they begin a love affair. After some time, he announces abandoning wife and family for her. After hearing the declaration, Sabina abandons Franz, feeling he would emotionally weigh her down. Meanwhile, Tereza and Tomas attempt to adapt to Switzerland, a country whose people she finds coldly inhospitable; but when she discovers that Tomas continues womanising, she leaves him and Switzerland, and returns to Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia. Upset by her leaving, Tomas follows Tereza to Czechoslovakia despite his confiscated passport, locking him in-country; nevertheless, his return elates Tereza. They are re-united. Read more
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