![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each is like a movie critic who goes through his job with one part of his mind on the movie, while the part that's safely outside it criticizes the critic's reactions and prepares to tell all at any minute. They can enjoy everything they're doing while always remaining a little detached. ![]() Tomas and Sabina share a passion for acrobatic, technically ingenious sex that excludes serious emotional commitment but not nonstop conversation. The film cuts to Tomas and Sabina (Lena Olin) in a frenzied, thoroughly satisfying coupling on the platform bed in her studio - she's a painter. ''But the woman who understood him best was Sabina,'' says a second title card. On the other side of a frosted-glass window several other hospital employees watch Tomas's technique with admiration. Forever altering one aspect of playing hard-to-get, the nurse does. ''In Prague in 1968,'' says a title card, ''there lived a young doctor named Tomas.'' Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) comes out of the operating room and goes straight to a pretty nurse waiting in the supply room. PHILIP KAUFMAN'S ''Unbearable Lightness of Being'' begins with much promise, as if it were a ribald fairy tale. ![]()
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