The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2-DVD Special Edition) R
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 7, 2006
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche & Lena Olin | |
Performer: | Derek de Lint & Stellan Skarsgård | |
Directed by | Philip Kaufman | |
Edited by | Walter Murch | |
Music by | Leos Janacek | |
Screenwriting by | Philip Kaufman & Jean-Claude Carrière | |
Composition by | Mark Adler & Ernie Fosselius | |
Produced by | Saul Zaentz | |
Director of Photography: | Sven Nykvist |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Kaufman has made a fine-looking film. He has cast the three points of his erotic triangle bravely and adroitly...
Los Angeles Times
...Mature, serious and intellectual....Great films are seldom made from great novels, but THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING stands as a stunning and surprising exception...
Variety
It's possible to read the book in less time.
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New York Times
3 stars out of 4 -- [A] contemplation of the meaning of life and death and sex and freedom and a whole lot in between....[I]t's a compellingly adult film...
Premiere
...[Day-Lewis, Binoche and Olin] are surprisingly fine -- both modest and intense....Notably ambitious...
New York Times
Kaufman proves that an American can direct a smart, sexy, and tasteful European-style art film.
Premiere
Rating: 3/5 --
Some wonderful atmospherics of a besieged culture.
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Radio Times
Product Description:
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING is a sensual and sensitive adaptation of Milan Kundera's tragicomic existentialist novel that follows the story of Thomas (Daniel Day Lewis), a womanizing Czech doctor in 1968 Prague, prior to the Soviet invasion, whose sexual appetite is never fully satisfied. Thomas believes in keeping sexual gratification separate from love and finds true understanding and erotic bliss with Sabina (Lena Olin), a seductive and elusive artist. However, Thomas's understanding of love and commitment is challenged when he meets Tereza (Juliette Binoche), a sexually naive and innocent young woman who captures Thomas's fancy on an out-of-town business trip. When Tereza appears on his Prague doorstep, Thomas lets down his guard and allows the young woman to stay with him, breaking all his rules regarding the dangers of seductive entanglement. Despite his numerous affairs, Thomas falls deeply in love with Tereza, and they eventually marry. Sabina accepts Thomas's marriage to Tereza, but Tereza cannot accept Thomas's many lovers and is deeply hurt by her sly husband. Tereza's own sexual awakening and creative spirit is at the core of the film, as she is undeniably captivating to both Thomas and Sabina, who becomes her friend and artistic mentor. The three become involved in an intense love triangle that is eventually shattered by the violent Soviet invasion of 1968. Tereza's burgeoning photographic passion is documented in a creative black-and-white montage of the invasion, beautifully crafted by cinematographer Sven Nykvist. This captivating and brilliant literary adaptation is a subtle and complex character study in which Daniel Day Lewis, Lena Olin, and Juliette Binoche give magnificent lead performances.
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