Product: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)
Rating: 1.0
Uh...no.
...This movie doesn't have much. Let's see...it has what is probably the cutest baby pig you'll see in a movie. And Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin are very pleasant to look at...not so the rest of the film, however. Its title is pretentious and essentially empty, and thus an excellent match for the movie, but if I were to name it a little more honestly, a better variation on the theme would be "The Unbearable Self-Importance of Being...Philip Kaufman". Nothing seemingly happens or is displayed for much rhyme or reason, but then how could it...that would defeat the purpose. The characters are hateful and frankly rather ridiculous (unintentionally, to be sure). When I'm in the mood for a caricature of a womanizer, I'll fire up a Happy Days episode or two and watch the Fonz go at it in style, thanks. And as much as I like Lena Olin and Daniel Day-Lewis (though I certainly wouldn't, if I were judging them on the basis of this movie alone), their performances are extremely over-rated and surprisingly sub-par, and the horribly mangled accents are distracting. Juliette Binoche is the only one, in my opinion, deserving of praise for her performance (her accent also notwithstanding, mind you). If you like the female human body, you'll enjoy this film for its visceral qualities in that respect...they are certainly very nice. As for the film itself, if you like low-IQ artsy stylism like cactii as phallic symbols, incohesive dialog, and morally bankrupt parodies of characters that make decisions and live their life as if it really were a film (ie. a couple of hours long and with an audience), then you may well enjoy it as much as the ranks of lemmings who extoll this pretentious waste of celluloid's virtues and do the majority of intelligence-burdened film buyers a disservice. As for the DVD itself, it comes with no extras, the picture quality is poor and the sound is only available in Dolby 2.0, not 5.1., so it comes up short technically as well. My two cents: save your money and time. This movie is empty.