This movie achieves a rare grace: it tells a story that could only exist in the form of a movie (or, perhaps, as a piece of poetry).
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01/01/00
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:21
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, creator of the masterful THREE COLORS TRILOGY, presents this enigmatic, philosophical drama about duality in the modern world. Weronika (Irene Jacob), a young... [More]
Starring: Irčne Jacob, Sandrine Dumas, Aleksander Bardini, Louis Ducreux
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Reviews for The Double Life of Veronique
If Kieslowski's overarching metaphors about Weronika/Veronique seem strained, Jacob's sensuous and delicately nuanced performance will double your pleasure.
12/04/06
The parts do not quite fit, and anyway this is not a puzzle to be assembled. It is a romance about those moments we all sometimes have when we think we see ourselves at a distance.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt could be written off as blithe New Age-ism, if it weren’t for Kieslowski’s near metaphysical sense for emotional storytelling.
01/01/00
Coming together, however, is not the same as making sense.
01/01/00
A mesmerizing poetic work composed in an eerie minor key.
01/01/00
Top CriticDon't even attempt to resolve that paradox, and The Double Life of Veronique will work on its own poetic terms.
05/20/03
Top CriticErotic and mystical, a wondrous search for transcendence.
01/27/07
We see through a glass darkly, and often confusingly, but at least we see.
04/03/06
Top CriticKieslowski's most lyrical and metaphsical film, with a haunting performance from Irene Jacob, is also one of his most bizarre and enigmatic works--by design.
06/18/06
If Double Life is arguably only half as rewarding as some of Kieslowski's other films, then it remains an indelible entry in an outstanding career.
03/21/06
It wants to be mysterious, yet there is no mystery. It wants to be psychologically logical, but it ends up being ineptly illogical.
01/01/00
a film all about subjectivity
11/12/06
While this is the film that set the stage aesthetically for Kieslowski's masterful Three Colors trilogy, it is more mysterious than any of those films.
01/15/05
Compelling, challenging and irresistibly beautiful, this delicate metaphysical masterpiece only emphasises how much cinema lost through Krzysztof Kieslowski's tragically early death.
04/01/06
This is a perfect example of a situation where a film doesn't have to make sense to be a compelling and wonderful film experience.
02/28/02
Satisfies as a study of spiritual unrest.
11/06/05
It operates purely on visual juxtapositions, emotion and the presence of lead actress Irene Jacob. In its own terms, it's subtly precious.
01/01/00
Top CriticThough pleasing to the eye, it's not everything we would have hoped for from Kieslowski.
08/30/06
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