The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

With all the credentials of a masterpiece: Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche are two of the finest actors of their generation; cinematographer Sven Nykvist was one of the best cameramen working in Europe; Walter Murch probably the greatest living editor; Jean-Claude Carriere one of the most important writers in European cinema, based on a book by Milan Kundera; cameos from superb actors like Erland Josephson and Daniel Olbrychski: this really should have been one, but instead the story misses a great opportunity, with the focus on sex stealing attention from the social repercussions of the political situation in Soviet Prague. When Binoche's camera and passport are taking away, it happens just like that, but we get fifteen minutes of her running round naked with Lena Olin. Disappointing.