Ironie du sort, ironie du corps chez Milan Kundera et Philip Kaufman
Irony of fate, irony of the body in Milan Kundera and Philip Kaufman

Author(s): Diana Gradu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: irony; novel; Kundera; body; film; Kaufman;
Summary/Abstract: It is rather rare that a film adaptation of a book is faithful, successful and rewarding. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the novel published by Milan Kundera in 1985 and transcribed cinematographically by Philip Kaufman in 1988, is an exception. The script benefits from Jean Claude Carrière's talented pen and Kundera's characters from the incarnation of Juliette Binoche (Tereza), Daniel Day Lewis (Tomas) and Lena Olin (Sabina). The rest is just a ceaseless play of lights, images, frames and replicas that value a very well written book, unanimously appreciated by the critics and the public. I will try to surprise in both versions - novel and cinematic - the differences and similarities that make them so special. The key, the irony, like a magic lantern that turns seriousness into derision and trifles into a tragic accident.

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