Product: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)
Rating: 4.0
Very well done, but..
This is a superb movie addressing a very important historical event. The actors are excellent and the photography is breathtaking at times. I would highly recommend this movie. I thought Binoche and Day-Lewis were at the top of their game. I find the movie did not truly plumb the depths of the horror perpetrated by the Soviets on the people of Czechoslovakia. It made it look like the people were exposed to some inconveniences in their daily schedule rather than having the most fundamental of human rights, freedom, torn from them as if their arms and legs were ripped off. I can understand why the author of the book did not allow his works to be adapted after this experience.