| Movie this wednesday - The Unbearable
Lightness of Being |
Monday, January 19, 2009
4:51:15 PM |
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Hello everyone,
For this week, we are showing "The Unbearable Lightness
of Being" directed by Philip Kaufman, based on the novel
by Milan Kundera (More details below).
Since the movie will be long (172 mins), we will provide free
pizza during the half-point where I need to switch DVDs. So
hope you can come and enjoy the movie and pizza.
Please feel free to pass the message around and
invite your friends along. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Date and Time: January 21, 6-9:00
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Philip Kaufman
Partial List of Actors:
Daniel Day-Lewis
Juliette Binoche
Lena Olin
Derek de Lint
Stellan Skarsgård
Erland Josephson
Pavel Landovský
Donald Moffat
Daniel Olbrychski
US Rating: R
Language: English
Length: 171 mins
Media: DVD, color
Summary: (by Dan Hartung via www.imdb.com)
"Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s
Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck
with love for the bookish country girl Tereza;
his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina
eventually accepts their relationship and the
two women form an electric friendship. The three
are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring
(1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent
rebels; their illusions are shattered and their
lives change forever."
My Comments:
Based on the novel by Milan Kundera, the movie
was released in 1988. I think the direction and
cinematography are very good. The acting is also
good, mainly Binoche and Day-Lewis...except for
the fake accents which I found a little annoying
from time to time.
I think the movie is about the maturing of the main
characters as they move through the events around
them - forced, yet not forced, to search out other
ways to continue life. An interesting story.
It's a long movie (172 mins) so we will try to start
on time for this...and we have the two-disc
version which means we need to switch DVD in the
middle - should have gotten the criterion version.
