Review of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) by Makkom M — 03 Sep 2009

You don't judge a book by the cover - isn't that what they say? I liked Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood", I liked Kaufman's "Body Snatchers" as well. And I simply like Juliette Binoche.. But all those part must'n add up to a good film, at least that's the case with "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", a novel-adaptation that never feels authentic: The occupied Czechoslovakia looks like Americans might imagine it, the naturally fabulous actors are not convincing at all, stuck as they are with a pseudo-intellectual script and a director who doesn't seem to get a grip on his performers.

And the next film I see with Frenchmen, English or Swedes playing Eastern Europeans with this terrible fake accent ("Luk, she's smilink!") gets one star less on principle.