Jean Claude Carrière

A young marchioness who loves the way of free-thinking and flatterers invites an author into her house who pretends to seduce her…

In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 best-seller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed, Tomas continues his wanton womanizing, notably with his silken mistress Sabina (Lena Olin). Escaping the 1968 Russian invasion of Prague by heading for Geneva, Sabina takes up with another man and unexpectedly develops a friendship with Tereza. Meanwhile, Tomas, who previously was interested only in sex, becomes politicized by the collapse of Czechoslovakia's Dubcek regime. The Unbearable Lightness of Being may be too leisurely for some viewers, but other viewers may feel the same warm sense of inner satisfaction that is felt after finishing a good, long novel.

La Dame de pique d'Alexandre Pouchkine - Le Nez de Nicolas Gogol - Une âme simple de Léon Tolstoï - Zinotchka d'Anton Tchékhov.
Une sélection de nouvelles magistrales pour découvrir quatre des plus grands auteurs russes des XIXe et XXe siècles. Ce voyage entre réalisme et merveilleux, bouffonnerie et fantastique, misère et grandeur, amour et haine, nous livre une clef secrète de cet art subtil de la nouvelle russe. …