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By Anima B (4) on 18 Nov 2006

An old classic I haven't seen in awhile...very well-done…

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By Iam T (8) on 16 Nov 2006

When I watched this, I never got over the sensation that I was watching a filmed novel rather than an actual film…

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By Rami R (100) on 13 Nov 2006

A supremely well realized adaptation of a supposedly unadaptable novel…

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By Mary G (167) on 01 Nov 2006

The book was much better (like no one's ever said that before)…

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By Kelnner F (14) on 28 Oct 2006

Sad, depressing, heavy... I can say that the name fit as hell to the movie... one of the best already made…

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By Jonathan S (1,990) on 20 Sep 2006

The book is hard to read and the film, I confess it was tough to see it the first time…

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By Vera R (6) on 20 Sep 2006

The book is hard to read and the film, I confess it was tough to see it the first time…

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By Demonic N (103) on 20 Sep 2006

The book is hard to read and the film, I confess it was tough to see it the first time…

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By James B (2,746) on 19 Sep 2006

True stories would make out better as documentaries since it's not nessessarily for entertainment or the slighly erotic even though I liked this one…

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By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 06 Dec 2004

For all its real achievements, including a stomach-clutching re-creation of the Soviet invasion of Prague, and for all its uncoy acknowledgment…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Apr 2004

But these achievements and others—including an undeniable erotic charge to some of the scenes—add up to less than the sum of their parts…

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By James H (4,675) on 30 Dec 2003

up: Communism, Greek Mythology, Adultery, Pets, Love, Art, Comedy, Tragedy, what more could you ask for from a movie…

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By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 26 Sep 2003

It’s arguably every bit as good as Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Mar 2002

In Milan Kundera's novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the characters are pawns on a complex, philosophical chessboard with Kundera's…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Sep 2000

In three short scenes, this otherwise linear film unexpectedly slips loose from time, portraying a joyous moment, a tragic revelation, and…

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By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Jan 2000

The Unbearable Lightness of Being leaves an afterimage as insistent as a flashbulb's ghost. It is a haunting, glowing thing that won't let go…

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By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 08 Nov 1997

It's a rich, ambitious film, repetitive and voyeuristic in its eroticism, but exhilarating in its blend of documentary and fictional recreation…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Sep 1988

There is a lot of nudity in the film but no pornographic documentary quality; the camera does not linger, or move for the best view, or relish…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 06 Jul 1988

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is anything but light, though it very nearly is unbearable…

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