‘Women Talking’: The Unbearable Lightness of Freedom

Minor spoilers for ‘Women Talking’ (2022)

This time last week I finished reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being, from the recently departed Milan Kundera. While it’s embarrassing to admit to only just getting round to reading it, in a coincidence that I’m sure people of a religious persuasion would describe as an instance of divine providence, it has proven to be fortunate timing for a moment of intertextuality.