{"id":17707,"date":"2025-07-17T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17707"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:35:48","slug":"the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-1988-philip-kaufman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17707","title":{"rendered":"The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988, Philip Kaufman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lot of recent references to spa town in films: <em>Road to Wellville<\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17390\">Cure for Wellness<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14497\">Days<\/a><\/em>, now this.  In the late 1960s DDL meets Juliette Binoche on a business trip but he&#8217;s already with hat girl Lena Olin, wants to keep both girls and for everyone to be friends.  He&#8217;s a professional surgeon and casual writer, Juliette&#8217;s getting into photography, and when the Soviets invade Prague, his story gets him in trouble, and her photos of street protests get a hundred protestors in trouble.  They escape to Switzerland but Juliette returns and he follows her, arriving smugly principled to a fallen society, where he&#8217;s demoted from brain surgeon to general practitioner to window washer, until they decide to live the rest of their (few) days with a friendly pig farmer.  Director and actors (esp. Lena) do their best to save the movie from its clunky script, which is somehow by Bunuel&#8217;s writer and also got an oscar nomination.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/unbear1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/unbear2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/unbear3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lot of recent references to spa town in films: Road to Wellville, Cure for Wellness, Days, now this. In the late 1960s DDL meets Juliette Binoche on a business trip but he&#8217;s already with hat girl Lena Olin, wants to keep both girls and for everyone to be friends. He&#8217;s a professional surgeon and casual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,411,1389,177,3413,2160,516],"class_list":["post-17707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-daniel-day-lewis","tag-juliette-binoche","tag-lena-olin","tag-philip-kaufman","tag-pig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17728,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions\/17728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}