Very few films can deal with sex and fidelity in ways that deal with the human experience while having an anti-Soviet message at the same time.ĭirector Philip Kaufman has had an uneven career, he has been involved in either writing or directing some of the greatest films in the last forty years, he's also been involved in some of the worst. Perhaps as a faithful adaptation of the novel, it fails, but as a truly magnificent film, it succeeds.
Cue to the people who've read Kundera's novel and seen the film to mutter those ever so cliché words, "The book was better than the movie." But it would be entirely unfair to compare a film to a novel since both mediums have their limits and their strengths.
He has said that the film bears little resemblance to his novel or the characters in it. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is a based on the 1984 existential novel by Milan Kundera, who despite having an uncredited role as a supervisor, would later go on to denounce the film.
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