Good adaptation of the book (which I've read) and a good film in its own right. Quite mesmerizing and unbearably light. While the adaptation obviously cannot fully capture the deep philosophical discussion contained in the book, it does do a fantastic job as a film of conveying the associated feelings in a way that only images and sound can. There were some aspects, though, like the hat, and the "lightness of being" concept that the film should have done much better with. Read the book first.

the only good part: young Juliette Binoche

It's set in Czechoslovakia, but they speak english. What a simple way to ruin an otherwise wonderful film!

The unbearable boredom of watching this movie.

Lots of nudity, but no real lightness of being. Annoying characters...Terrible audio I believe they literally had NO audio post-production. The soundtrack is 50% static sound it seems.

899

a movie where i didn't like any of the characters

Yeaaah Daniel Day! Fuck those euro babes. ...Sorry. Beautiful film.

An at times beautifully shot film, held together by the excellent DDL and Binoche. Even so I found it very cliche, at times dull and actually slightly unintentionally silly. It really didn't do anything for me because frankly the charm of watching DDL slowly and methodically bang his way through Europe wears thin pretty quick. Perhaps I just wasn't in the mood for it? But even so I'm not likely to give this movie a second chance!

Lena Olin had an amazing body in the 80's, that is the only thing I'm going to remember about this.

An overly-long soft-core Porno with hints at Philosophical and Political commentary. Takes place in Prague despite very obviously being shot in France and DDL has an annoyingly inconsistent accent. I've heard it's terrible compared to the novel, but I have to admit I still kinda liked it. In the very least, it's erotic and is nowhere near as formulaic and cliched as every almost every other Romance film on the planet. Now if only they could find a way to cut it down by an hour.

I could watch Danial Day-Lewis and Juilette Binoche act all day. They're both mesmerizing. Binoche has a quality of innocence mixed with sexiness that works perfectly for this character. Day-Lewis plays the perfect "smooth smoothie". But despite how much I enjoyed these two actors, I didn't love the movie. Nothing jumped out at me as being especially insightful or emotional. And often the film went for the cheap, unnecessary tearjerker moment, such as the death of the dog and the final twist.

It was way too long and the characters were of absolutely no interest to me. The film's undercurrents of politics, freedom and meaning were kind of interesting but not much was done with them. Instead the film focused on a boring complicated romance between unlikable characters. The technical aspects were strong, but they don't make up for the weak core.

85.250

The Unbearable Overestimated Daniel Day-Lewis.

Okay I suppose, but I find it incredibly distracting when a film is set in a foreign country and everyone speaks English with an odd accent to signify they're supposed to be not American. Either cast actors native to the country the film's set in and have subtitles or if you insist on casting famous Americans and Brits then just have them use their own accent and be done with it.

#906

a bad movie from a beautiful novel

Love it!!!