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An Ironic, Sexy, and Sour Comedy
A brilliant adaptation of Milan Kundera's (Unbearable Lightness of Being) great novel, this tragicomedy directed by Jaromil Jires revolves around a single joke: a professor, who is also an unrepentant ladies' man, is sentenced to six years hard labor for an irreverent postcard he sends to a woman he's trying to seduce.
This ironic, sexy, sour, black-and-white film is a stunning vision of life in Czechoslovakia during the Stalinist 50's, and a tour-de-force by director Jars.
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