The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition)

I saw this movie a long time ago, Probably 90s.And after purchasing the DVD, I saw it again in 2006, Then I saw it again last night. Suddenly I missed one of the actress from the movie.Lena Olin. I first saw her from the movie <HAVANA> She was so charming as an actress.In this movie Daniel Day-Lewis was great as always but Lena Olin is the one who always made me want to watch this film again and again.This movie is a long one. Pretty long. I mean it's 2 hours and 50 minutes long which means you should be prepared to spend your 3 hours to watch this film.But you will know that not even 1 minute you will feel boring watching great actors performing there great acting.I never liked Juliette Binoche because she looks like a boor. It's not my fault. It's her face which look like one. Some will say she has an innocent looking face. Yes at some point that's also right.But in this movie actually it works fine. And I couldn't hate her. The director actually used her look perfectly for her charactor and I kind of liked her that way. She says to Deniel ' If you are sleeping with another woman, take me with you. I will wash her hands for you. Just don't leave me alone.'She even allows Daniel to have sex with another woman. (Anyway she leaves Daniel a couple of times though).I have apsolutely no interest in war stories in this film but the love and sex between the three people are very interesting.It comes more interesting when Lena and Juliet become close.I didn't even knew that 3 hours have been passed so quick. Although this was not the first time I watched this film.

Three terrific stars and a great supporting cast, plus a great production team make this film better than its screenplay. The cold-war politics of the Milan Kundera novel are difficult to deal with in the scope of a film, as are some of the aesthetic themes such as the fantasy on kitsch. Writer Jean-Claude Carriere has done brilliant work, such as his screenplay for "Valmont," and made some interesting choices for this film, including a drastic condensation of the kitsch theme in one speech by Sabina, played perfectly by the very sexy Lena Olin. Juliette Binoche plays Tereza with charming simplicity and goes through very well modulated changes as her relationship with Tomas evolves. She was younger than we know her from her later work, as was Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays Tomas with perfect pitch. Producer Saul Zaentz must have loved the novel, and deserves credit for assembling such a great team to make the film. Bergman's great cinematographer Sven Nykvist shot this film, and Bergman star Erland Josephson played a supporting role. Legendary editor Walter Murch was "supervising editor" - but it's nearly 3 hours long. Someone must have loved the book too much to make the film shorter! But the great scenes were enough for me, and I shall enjoy watching this film multiple times. Well worth having!

This is one of the five best movies in my all time list. Sensuality is used as a demonstration of how we can find newness and openness in possibility. The characters both assertively sought out new possibility and were not deterred by the limits that surrounded them. Both the bitter and the sweet, the celebratory and the pensiveness were always possibilities, yet somehow sweet celebration found a way. Some of us become seduced and trapped by what we assume will set us free, but feeling light and free is an art of life that only the subtlest parts of who we are, can be the key to make the escape. The kernel of a whole life is within us all, but how rare it comes to blossom. The seed is only possibility, but allowing it to grow and live is necessarily only seen by example. What is it and how is it the encasement can be broken, is for each of us to wonder. Whether or not we can escape and how we can escape is still within us, but "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" at least allows us to watch the intimate process that we now know could happen.