The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Based on Milan Kundera’s 1984 novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, a smart young surgeon living in Prague in the late 1960s. Tomas’s world collides with the beautiful and artistic Sabina’s (Lena Olin). Soon, the two embark on a tumultuous, almost doomed from the start relationship: they never want their enjoyment of one another to glide over boundary from the physical to the emotional. This no-strings-attached mentality is “lightness.” Lines are crossed and promises are broken as Tomas begins a new, grounded life with a new woman, Tereza (Juliette Binoche). But the pull to his old ways is inescapable, and the three struggle to maintain their bohemian ideals in a world whose events are beyond their control. This film is lush and nostalgic, and more about the idealism of love than of the “superiority” of sex over romance.
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