The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

Juliette Binoche: Tereza

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• Tereza : I know I'm supposed to help you, but I can't. Instead of being your support I'm your weight. Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you. I can't bear this lightness, this freedom... I'm not strong enough.

• Tereza : I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love.

• Tereza : I was forced to love my mother, but not this dog. You know, Tomas... maybe... maybe, I love her more than I love you. Not more. I mean in a better way. I'm not jealous of her. I don't want her to be different. I don't ask her for anything.

• [last lines] 

  Tereza : Tomas, what are you thinking?

  Tomas : I'm thinking how happy I am.

• Tereza : [referring to her dog]  Karenin prefers Mephisto to dogs. She thinks other dogs are silly.

  Tomas : [Mephisto snorts and Tomas inhales the aroma of the food]  Ha-ha.

  Pavel : Do you know why I love Mephisto? Because he's very bright, but, at the same time,

  [gesturing for emphasis] 

  Pavel : he doesn't know anything! After all, he doesn't know that life is impossible here now. Nothing left here. The church is gone.

  [shrugging] 

  Pavel : No place to drink beer now.

  [he drinks his bottle of beer very quickly] 

  Pavel : It's good... very good.

  [slurping] 

  Pavel : If you ever change your mind, it won't be easy to leave.

• Sabina : Take off your clothes.

  Tereza : [taken aback]  What?

  Sabina : [taking the camera]  Now it's my turn.

  Tereza : [backing up]  I don't like to be naked. I...

  Sabina : [insistent]  Take off your clothes!

  Tereza : Wait!

  [she ducks behind the bed]