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efilmcritic.com - : I recommend you to watch this movie, forget about the nudity and all that shit since there’s more to the film than just the nudity. Watch with a clear mind, since this film will tend to challenge you morally. The ending part will leave you with a bittersweet taste in your mouth, but with also a grin on your face, you’ll know what I mean. The film is comparable to the many love stories caught in war, such as Reds, and The English Patient, but overall, it’s a great film that stands on it’s own, and surely it’s a film not to miss. more...
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5/5
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www.filmcritic.com - : When I first watched The Unbearable Lightness of Being, I was dating a poet who had read and loved the book. Not wanting to involve myself in reading the book at that point, I rented the movie instead. I loved it then and I love it now, but, at this point in time, I can compare it to the novel by Milan Kundera. The two are both vastly similar and vastly different. As an adaptation, it succeeds in transcribing the events of the novel, but does not do as well in successfully demonstrating its points. more...
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4.5/
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : In the title of Philip Kaufman's ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being,'' the crucial word is ''unbearable.'' The film tells the story of a young surgeon who attempts to float above the mundane world of personal responsibility and commitment to practice a sex life that has no traffic with the heart, to escape untouched from the world of sensual pleasure while retaining his privacy and his loneliness. By the end of the story, this freedom has become too great a load for him to bear. more...
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4/4
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