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Mar 11, 1984 · The Unbearable Lightness of Being. By Milan Kundera. March 11, 1984. Illustration by Charlotte Edey. LIGHTNESS AND WEIGHT. 1. The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one: to think that...
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.
Adapted by Kaufman and Jean-Claude Carrière, the film follows a womanizing surgeon (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he struggles with his free-spirited mistress (Lena Olin) and his childlike wife (Juliette Binoche). An intimate epic, The Unbearable Lightness of Being charts the frontiers of relationships with wit, emotion, and devastating honesty. Film Info.
