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PAGE 26 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 6. Based on Milan Kundera‘s nove! Unbearable focuses on Tomas and his relationships with two women. before. during and after the Soviet takeâ€" over Bedside and bowler hat beauty Sabina (Ingmar Bergman player Lena Olin/ is freeâ€"spirit madcap artiste. who is Tomas‘ female counterpart. Strong and often insensitive. Sabina isn‘t easily attached, w places. objects. or people gay London punk of Laundrette and incipid English fop Cecil in Room with a View, Thomas is more the real Daniel Day Lewis. whose piercing good looks smoulder from scene to scene. Tomas, Czechland‘s most promising brain surgeon has a passion for surgery and a passion for women He skilfully uses his scaipel of lust to cut these women. He has an insatiable desire to find deep inside them what he lacks in himself. It is, he admits "the unbearable lightness of being." Directed by Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff, The Great Northfield), The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a threeâ€"hour mind and sou! feast brilliantly set against a picturesque tableau of modern historiâ€" cal drama. Rather. she is a collection of attitudes, considers Musak dirty water. and detests commitment. She is searching for "something higher .‘ oo "Life is light. It is like an outline. we cannot fill it. correct it, or make it any better. It‘s frightening." Such is the diagnosis of Doctor Tomas (pronounced Tomache). He does live in a frightening world. For this is Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1968, the eve of the Russian invasion. Danie!l Day Lewis (My Beautiful Laundrette, Room With a View ) is superb as Tomas. Unlike the Coral Andrews Chronicie Special Tereza, by contrast is the very essence of innoâ€" cence. "like a tiny bird."" French actress Juliette Binoche. tnot unlike actress Isabella Rossellini in her vibrancy| is beguiling as a simple health spa waitrese who eventually wins the doctor‘s heart But it is a struggle. with this medical philanderer Thev are both aware of it. That is life mVWw VE L oi ear | arraboter L AhFA EL IF 118 KING ST. NORTH, WATERLOO MON.â€"SAT. 9â€"9 p.m. . ( ol at W thatieh _M NOW OPEN Unbearable Lightness a mind and soul feast Movie review ang4 NAILS ‘N LASHMES Lightness illustrates well, the influence of Westâ€" ern culture upon this troubled country. As a Beatle clone band plays rock at a local dance, a table of Russian bureaucrats forces the Czech mop tops to play "Internationale". When the band rocks up this anthem, and the disgusted Russian representatives walk out, it is clearly understood this action is a minute premonition of the strife to come. Though Lightness is sexually exotic, screenwâ€" rights Kaufman, Jeanâ€"Claude Carrere, have cast this sublime lover‘s triad through an intelligent, eloquent light of emotion in the shadow of oppresâ€" sion. Tomas and Tereza change. He trades in his scaipel for the sharp nib of a political pen, writing of the Czech Stalinists while comparing them to Oedipâ€" uses. Tereza finds her true vocation as a political press photographer, risking prison to smuggle this crucial evidence to Amsterdam. These Russian atrocities were the only ones photographically documented. Czech cameramen and women braved death to preserve the inhuman face of violence for the not so distant future. Lightness is blinding in its historical reality. Director Kaufman melds Tomas and Tereza into real street riot "tanks and protest" Czech footage with a chilling visual effect. Lightâ€" ness is almost two movies. But in the second half darkness looms. 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