L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere

Titolo originale: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988
VM14
2h 51min

VALUTAZIONE IMDb

7,3/10

39.257

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

POPOLARITÀ

3.688

171

Lena Olin in L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere (1988)

Drama Romance

Nel 1968, un medico ceco con una vita sessuale attiva incontra una donna che vuole la monogamia, e poi l'invasione sovietica sconvolge ulteriormente le loro vite.Nel 1968, un medico ceco con una vita sessuale attiva incontra una donna che vuole la monogamia, e poi l'invasione sovietica sconvolge ulteriormente le loro vite.Nel 1968, un medico ceco con una vita sessuale attiva incontra una donna che vuole la monogamia, e poi l'invasione sovietica sconvolge ulteriormente le loro vite.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

7,3/10

39.257

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

POPOLARITÀ

3.688

171

Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro

Candidato a 2 Oscar
- 7 vittorie e 14 candidature totali

Quiz
The first cut shown to the studio was under two hours in length and the story was confusing. Philip Kaufman was asked to add in scenes he cut. The next day they were shown the theatrically released version. It's believed Kaufman showed them a shorter and confusing version in order to get his almost three-hour final cut approved with no questions of cutting it.

Blooper
Mephisto the Pig, consistently referred to as "he", is a sow, as can be seen frequently, but particularly when the group enters the inn for dancing.

Citazioni
Tereza: I know I'm supposed to help you, but I can't. Instead of being your support I'm your weight. Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you. I can't bear this lightness, this freedom... I'm not strong enough.

Connessioni
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Shoot to Kill/The Serpent and the Rainbow/She's Having a Baby/The Unbearable Lightness of Being/School Daze (1988)

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6/10

A film seemingly anticipating the vevlvet revolutions of 1989

In 1988 praised as an erotic movie. In 2018 we can only see Tomas as a sex addict a la "Shame" (2011, Steve McQueen).

Noteworthy just the same is the fact that in the late '60s there were youth protests irrespective of the political system (North America: flower power and Woodstock. Western Europe: Student protests in Paris. Eastern Europe: spring of Prague.).

With respect to coping with a dictatorship the films shows three fundamentally different strategies. Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) is trying to fight back, Sabina (Lena Olin) flights while Tereza (Juliette Binoche) adapts.

The film was made just before the velvet revolutions of 1989. More than twenty five years later I was reading the book "Dancing bears" (2014, Witbold Szablowski). This book describes that not everybody knows how to cope with the freedom that was conquered. Some people feel more comfortable when they are told what to do and how to behave. Somehow I had to think about Tereza when reading this book.