Farewell Waltz Kundera Milan (2015)

Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided that he is the father. Thus begins a comedy that unfolds over five madcap days at ever-increasing speed. Klima’s beautiful, jealous wife, the nurse’s equally jealous boyfriend, a fanatical gynaecologist, a rich American who is both Don Juan and saint, and an elderly political prisoner holding a farewell party at the spa before his emigration are all drawn into this black comedy, like characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us understand how the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy.