THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING - by: Philip Kaufman - CINEMIN review

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American drama film, an adaptation of the 1984 novel of the same name by Milan Kundera. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean-Claude Carrière, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin. The film portrays Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the Prague Spring, and the effect on the main characters of the communist repression that resulted from the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. When I read Milan Kundera’s book “The Unbearable Lightness of Being“ I was around 15 years old it was around 1986 and I got rid of that the book was an immediate sensation as it arrived in bookstores and was often cover story . I confess that I was too young to fully understand the philosophical content that the author personified in the character of Tomas (at least in my interpretation) did every page was too intellectual for my level of knowledge. I remember I assumed I had really enjo