The Double Life Of Veronique

"Kieslowski’s first film after the fall of the communist state... tells the story of Weronika, a young woman living on Poland, who has an exact double, a sort of cross-cultural identical twin, Véronique, in France... Both are, to say the least, 'good' and beautiful... [Both] have extraordinary singing voices, and potentially fatal heart conditions.

"The difference is that one surrenders to something I will call beauty, or rather rushes into its arms, whereas the other evades it – trying to go about a materially pleasant but circumscribed life. In the end, the second finally faces her relation with her twin and to a realm of experience outside the local." (Georgia Brown, Village Voice)

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