The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

A journey to the Odyssey of the human soul, its desires, its vices, all the little voices in our heads that prompts us to be mad and reckless and docile. And we can't help it. Sometimes, this is our only response when the heart decides to take the upper hand against our firm will (not so firm then, is it?)

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

A journey to the Spring of Prague and a country that wanted her freedom, her justice back. A masterpiece of lost souls wandering in the Golden City. An elegy of obsession and madness.

And a monumental adaptation (1988) by Philip Kauffman, starring the inimitable Daniel Day-Lewis.

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”