Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Director Philip Kaufman achieves a delicate, erotic balance with his screen version of Milan Kundera's "unfilmable" novel. Set during the Prague Spring and its aftermath, the film follows a womanizing surgeon as he struggles with his free-spirited mistress and his childlike wife. An intimate epic, The Unbearable Lightness of Being charts the frontiers of relationships with wit, emotion, and devastating honesty.