The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Nevermind the annoying accents and Daniel Day-Lewis looking like some damn Zoolander, The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a wonderful flick. And sexy too. When a movie starts with a sex scene you can probably assume where the rest of it will go.

Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a successfull brain surgeon, he's so excellent even, he can't be satisfied by just one woman. We can see him seducing some random hospital employee in the very first few minutes of the film.




Tomas's main woman, though, is Sabina (Lena Olin). They're having sex in front of a mirror right after the hospital scene. Looks like they're having quite a bit of fun there. If you pay attention you can catch a quick glimpse of Sabina's pussy, the sheets are obviously there just to conceal Day-Lewis's ass.



Tomas meets Tereza (Juliette Binoche) and they too get it on eventually. There's no nudity yet, so I left it out, there's a bunch of stuff like that in there. Tomas pays another visit to Sabina and they have sex in front of the mirror yet again. She hides his sock there at the end. She's probably pissed about his whoring around.



Then the Soviets invade and a bunch of other things happen. They all move to Switzerland where Tereza decides to become a photographer, so one day she visits Sabina to do some nudes. Apparently she has an amazing sense of the female body. Tereza shoots some pictures, but then Sabina decides to take some pictures of her own. They're running around bare naked, Tereza trying to cover herself until both they end up on the sofa where Sabina gets on top of her and starts undressing her panties. She seems a bit passive aggresive, but they soon switch to a more sexy and relaxed atmosphere and have a bit of fun by the fireplace. Looks like they've been doing this all day. No wonder, the whole thing is about 8 minutes long.



Tereza returns to Prague and after a while Tomas joins her as well. They fall into each other's arms and have some sex. Tereza cries with happiness.



For criticizing the communist regime, Tomas now works as a window cleaner. And that's where he meets his next floozy. She immediately starts flirting, apparently she's got some kid of "medical problems". She undresses before him and that's about it, but hey, it's nudity so I'm not complaining.



Eventually Tereza becomes fed up with Tomas seeing all these women and jumps in bed with some guy she met at the bar (Stellan Skarsgård). She's very uncomfortable about the whole thing but does it anyway. It kinda feels like rape, but she feels at peace afterwards, I guess it's nice to know your partner is not the only one who's sleeping around.





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