The Double Life of Véronique

3.75
    The Double Life of Véronique
    1991

    Synopsis

    Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.

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    Cast

    • Irène JacobWeronika / Véronique
    • Halina GryglaszewskaAuntie
    • Philippe VolterAlexandre Fabbri
    • Guillaume de TonquédecSerge
    • Kalina JędrusikCrazy Woman
    • Aleksander BardiniConductor
    • Władysław KowalskiWeronika's Father
    • Jerzy GudejkoAntek
    • Janusz SterninskiLawyer
    • Sandrine DumasCatherine

    Recommandations

    • 100

      The Guardian

      The elusiveness of the film is precisely the point: it is as beautiful and mysterious as a poem and its formal elegance and conviction are unarguable. What makes it a must-see, however, is the generous, unselfconscious passion of Jacob's performance as a young woman - two young women - in love.
    • 100

      Washington Post

      The Double Life of Veronique is a mesmerizing poetic work composed in an eerie minor key. Its effect on the viewer is subtle but very real. The film takes us completely into its world, and in doing so, it leaves us with the impression that our own world, once we return to it, is far richer and portentous than we had imagined.
    • 100

      The A.V. Club

      The film wilts under the harsh light of rationality; after all, how could anyone make sense of a heroine whose doppelgänger is both distinctly separate and inextricably connected to her? And yet these parallel lives rhyme so tunefully through the reflective cinematography and sweeping score that any confusion or disbelief tends to melt away.
    • 100

      The New Yorker

      The film is filled to dazzling with the vitreous and the translucent; the flaw running down the window of a Polish train seems, in some mystifying way, as momentous as a rift in space-time. We see through a glass darkly, and often confusingly, but at least we see.
    • 100

      Total Film

      The Double Life of Véronique makes the familiar seem extraordinary and memorably conjures up the sense of metaphysical forces guiding its characters’ everyday lives.
    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      There is a long central section in the film which is a triumph of narrative technique.
    • 80

      Empire

      Although not all the loose ends are tied up in the telling of this bizarre and absorbing tale of love, grief and goose-bumps, one scarcely minds at all, since the fourth-dimensional doings on offer, (underlined with a marvellously moody, haunting score by Zbigniew Preisner) are like an erotic trip into The Twilight Zone.
    • 78

      Austin Chronicle

      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). The story is told not so much in customary narrative structures, but in glimpses, hints, and intimations. It has a way of taking the solid and making it chimerical.

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