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unbearable lightness of being

luci-fur posted on Nov 05, 2007 | views: 267 | Tags: a movie, unbearable lightness of being, just beaitiful
used to be one of my favourite books and films. An arthouse sort of movie. There's such an interplay or contrast between life being heavy and life being light.  The movie is hardly light considering it has a war going on in the background and people having affairs all over the place. But the light/heavy theme keeps weaving all the way through it.

Juliette Binoche is gorgeous, she was also in Chocolat.

Her character (a photogrpaher) in this film believes life is heavy but her husband has a lover and it torments her mind. the wife feels the weight of the world because of this and other reasons. she feels everything very deeply. While her husband ponders what he's missing out on considering he only lives one life (he thinks). He grieves for all the lives he can't live all the things he can't do because of limited time.

and then there are other characters... doing similar things. I think they form this group where they get together and it is actually called lightness of being, but the film is anything but light.

i adored the music from it. i have it somewhere. 











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  • silverwhisper said on Nov 05, 2007....
    you know, i saw that once in the theatre but was so busy making out (and other things) w/ my girlfriend that i don't think i know what the movie was about. i need to add that to my netflix queue.

    ed
  • luci-fur said on Nov 05, 2007....
    hehee. 

    it's worth a look. I haven't seen it myself for years. but the title kept popping into my mind all day yesterday.

    luci.

  • gingersoul said on Nov 05, 2007....

    Luci......the book of Kundera is one of my favorite.....the movie has two of my favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Juliette Binoche....what more can i say?

    The dreams she has about him are the same kind fo dreams i used to have abouy my ex husband...

    The coincidences thru which she gets attracted to him are the source of her love...of any love......

    naturally the book is much more better than the movie but i liked it... i re read this book so many times.... i kept giving it as present to all my friends....

  • luci-fur said on Nov 07, 2007....
    yeah, i really enjoy juliette binoche. i've seen her in an interview and she's one of the deepest feeling people i've seen. 

    your dreams sound intriguing. 

    yes i enjoyed the book more too.
    luci.

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