The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Adaptations
The Unbearable Lightness of Being was made into a film of the same name in 1988, directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Tomas, Juliette Binoche as Tereza and Lena Olin as Sabina. Successful at the box office, in large part due to its steamy eroticism and the performance of Olin, the film is largely true to the spirit and atmosphere of the novel, particularly in its rendering of the Prague Spring and its aftermath. Its drawbacks include the rectifying of the chronology of the novel's events into a coherent time sequence — thus muting some of Kundera's most inventive...
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