The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Dir: Philip Kaufman
USA, 1988, 171minmins, DCP
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Philip Kaufman, Jean-Claude Carrière and Milan Kundera himself (as consultant) created this compelling film that evokes and yet diverges from Kundera’s powerful novel of Czech society and its intellectuals caught between hope and despair after the Prague Spring. Following the intertwined and extrapolated affairs of surgeon Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis), his artist lover Sabina (Lena Olin) and his lover-turned-wife, the waitress-turned-photographer Tereza (Juliette Binoche), we enter a maelstrom of political change and trajectories of exile. The film explores the quest for place, happiness and belonging in a world where betrayal is writ large across an entire nation.
BAFTA Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay
6.4 (SAT): Film talk with Long Tin
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Full House 2019-04-06 (Sat)
19:30Full House 2019-05-13 (Mon)
18:00
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
Tai Kwun
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening talk
Full House
Remarks
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