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The Double Life of Veronique
starring: Aleksander Bardini, Philippe Campos, Louis Ducreux, Sandrine Dumas, Claude Duneton

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381314021
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 30745
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: 1991

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Two women...complete strangers, but strangely linked to each other... Renowned director Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors: Red, White and Blue) confirmed his reputation as one of cinema's visionary filmmakers with this beautifully poetic, elegantly mysterious film that ponders the nature of intuition and the metaphysical connections between people. Irene Jacob lights up the screen as both Weronika, a deeply spiritual Polish soprano, and her double, Veronique, a more earthy French music teacher. Each senses the other and is affected by each other's experiences, though they have no idea of the other's existence. Aided by a haunting operatic score, The Double Life of Veronique is a mesmerizing masterpiece of filmmaking.

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- The "Meeting"
In the film, Veronique catches just a glimpse of her "other self" as a bus pulls away, but that glimpse raises the question: suppose the two Valentines actually did meet? Such a meeting would pose some fascinating questions, I think. And the possibility of such a meeting made me recall two wonderful pieces of fiction by the master Argentinean poet/philosopher/writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). In two of his short stories such meetings actually do occur; "The Other" (from "The Book of Sand" - 1975) and "August 25, 1983" (from "Shakespeare's Memory" - 1983). Could Kieslowski have read these works?

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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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