The Double Life of Veronique

This movie is truly amazing. It's my favorite art-house movie.

It had been a bear finding a properly subtitled version of this film, until the wonders of YouTube finally helped our cause. Irène Jacob's immeasurably understated grace and beauty permeate this film, from the first moments in Krakow where she elevates her voice to angelic proportions, to the second half where she tries to connect with herself in another way.

This film just inspired me to watch more older films. In the summer i was in a Christian camp where they showed the main scene (for me it is) when Alexandre Fabbri is playing with the marionette ballerina.

A delicate tale of spiritual connection of two absolute different women who are not aware of the another's existence. Krzysztof Kieslowski perfectly balanced the two personalities by giving them the needed physical, psychological & spiritual connections in order to keep the audience in deep angst.

So i was very interested in seeing this movie, what first made me interested in seeing the movie was the fact that it was directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, the director of the well known Three Color: Trilogy, which i really like, i had also seen another movie of his,A Short Film About Love, so i had liked what i had seen from him, certainly not mainstream stuff, but very interesting work. Another reason was the fact that this was his first collaboration with Irène Jacob who later appeared in his masterpiece Three Colors: Red.

The Double Life of Véronique, a poetic masterpiece. This is a film which compels you to read about it more than the time you have watched it for.

Kieslowski in pure form. same search of characters.

"The Double Life of Véronique" is a Drama - Fantasy movie in which we watch the lives of two identical women, one living in Poland and the other living in France. Their lives are connected despite that they don't know each other and they live in different countries.

Two exact look-alikes, the Polish Weronika and the French Véronique, inhabit the world of Krzysztof Kieslowski's memorable The Double Life of Véronique. Both women are played by the same actress, the radiant Iréne Jacob, winner of the Best Actress award at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.