The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection Krzysztof Kieslowski Digital Life DVD

The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection
starring: Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Aleksander Bardini, Wladyslaw Kowalski
directed by: Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515020725
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 8515
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: November 22, 1991

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Krzysztof Kieslowski's international breakthrough remains one of his most beloved films a ravishing mysterious rumination on identity love and human intuition. Irene Jacob is incandescent as both Weronika a Polish choir soprano and her double Veronique a French music teacher. Though unknown to each other the two women share an enigmatic purely emotional bond which Kieslowski details in gorgeous reflections colors and movements. Aided by Slawomir Idziak's shimmering cinematography and Zbigniew Preisner's haunting operatic score Kieslowski creates one of cinema's most purely metaphysical works; The Double Life of Veronique is an unforgettable symphony of feeling.Special Features:New restored high-definition digital transferAudio commentary by film scholar Annette InsdorfThree short documentary films by Kieslowski'Kieslowski - Dialogue' documentary with behind-the-scenes footage2005 documentary '1966 -- 1988: Kieslowski Polish Filmmaker'A 2005 interview with actress Irene JacobNew video interview with cinematographer Slawomir IdziakNew video interview with composer Zbigniew Preisner'The Musicians' (1958) a short film by Kieslowski's teacher Kazimierz KarabaszNew and improved English subtitle translationNew essays by Jonathan Romney Slavoj Zizek and Peter CowieSystem Requirements:Running Time: 97 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 715515020725 Manufacturer No: CC1657DDVD

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- Excellent
The Double Life Of Véronique (La Double Vie De Véronique) is the 1991 French-Polish film by Krzysztof Kieslowski, written by himself and Krzysztof Piesiewicz that was the presage for the greatness of the Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White, and Red), and was an international sensation at both the Cannes and New York film festivals, for here is where the gilt-hazed camera work of Slawomir Idziak, the music of Zbigniew Preisner (although slyly credited to the fictional Van den Budenmayer in the film- a running joke within Kieslowski's later works), and Kieslowski's own vision first touched greatness- even if it is a conditional greatness, more of sensuality than sense. The film has been rhapsodized by international film critics as Kieslowski's `coming out' film, but one can see it is clearly a bridge between the direction he was headed with his tv series The Decalogue, and where he ended up in the Trilogy.
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- Soul Sisters
Director Krzysztof Kieslowski had previously explored the concept of multiple and parallel possibilities in life for the same person with his film, PRZYPADEK, (BLIND CHANCE) 1987, and with a brief subplot in the ninth episode of THE DECALOGUE (1990). With VERONIQUE, he probed deeper into the metaphysical probabilities in life, and postulated that each of us could, or might have a "doppelganger" out there, walking on this sphere just as we are, two almost identical parts of the same spiritual entity, and two separate but nearly identical souls. We can, or might be "aware" of that other presence, and we could share insights, instincts, fears, mishaps, dangers, and health issues.

Weronika (Irene Jacob) lived in Poland, a young woman still residing at home with her father. She has a fabulous natural singing voice, and is discovered one day by a famous music teacher--but she also has a cardiac condition that ... Read More

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- Absorbing Tale of Love With Marvellous Moods., 8 Oct 2007
Plot:

Although oblivious to the other's existence, Veronika, an aspiring Polish soprano, and Véronique, a Parisian music teacher, gradually become aware that they are connected to a spiritual twin.

My Review:

His earliest film to date that undertakes the acting of Irène Jacob.

The themes embellished are of a deep mysterious balance of fate upon the lives of two women sharing more that several physical and psychological traits. It doesn't push the idea of them being linked by pure coincidence or a grander design, just touches on it and lets you decide for yourself.

The mosaic shots really do emphasise the warmth of the worlds inhabited by Veronika in Krakow and Véronique in Paris, with a score that balance them as much as each other. The style is almost the same as the Three Colours trilogy, as Jacob would be in the concluding part. Nevertheless, ... Read More

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- One-third good, two-thirds bad
A comment on the DVDs, and a comment on the movie.

Both Irène Jacob and the screenwriter comment on how few scenes Kieslowski picked from the vast amount he had shot, to make this short movie. Jacob even says she hardly recognized the film she had worked on when she saw it in the theater. The screenwriter says that five movies could have been made from the scenes shot. -- The movie is one hour 35 minutes long. That leaves four and a half hours for the two Criterion DVDs to show us some of these deleted scenes. Guess what? No deleted scenes. This annoyed me.

As to the film, the first image shows Veronika, the Polish girl, singing ecstatically as the rain falls on her face, while the rest of the chorus has taken refuge from the rain. -- The second image is of her making love passionately to her boyfriend. She is innocent, beautiful, full of promise, and doomed to die at a young age.

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