SUNDAY SCHMOOZE
Brunch, Film, and Discussion hosted by Fred Craden
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche
Sunday, August 19, Bagels at 10 am | Film at 11 am
Members $11 | Public $16
The film adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel of the same name. The portrayal of Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the 1968 Prague Spring of socialist liberalization, covering the moral, political, and psycho-sexual consequences for a surgeon and two bohemian artists with whom he has a sexual relationship
In Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 best-seller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed, Tomas continues his wanton womanizing, notably with his silken mistress Sabina (Lena Olin). Escaping the 1968 Russian invasion of Prague by heading for Geneva, Sabina takes up with another man and unexpectedly develops a friendship with Tereza. Meanwhile, Tomas, who previously was interested only in sex, becomes politicized by the collapse of Czechoslovakia's Dubcek regime. (USA, 1988, 172 min., NR, English| Dir. Philip Kaufman)
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