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The Double Life of Veronique

La Double Vie de Véronique

1991

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Aleksander Bardini ...

7.2

7,880

Drama Veronika lives in Poland. Veronique lives in Paris. They don't know each other. Veronika gets a place in a music school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point, Veronique's life seems to take a turn and she decides not to be a singer.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'The Double Life of Veronique' doesn't end. About three-quarters of the way through, it starts to dissolve, like mist, so that by the time it is actually over the screen seems to have been blank for some time"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"There is a long central section in the film which is a triumph of narrative technique."	POS
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten 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)"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Despite pic’s many-splendored outbursts of filmic creativity and intense emotion, final result (...) remains a head-scratching cipher with blurred edges"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"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"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The elusiveness of the film is precisely the point: it is as beautiful and mysterious as a poem (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"'Véronique' is one of the few films that could be called "inexplicable" with no insult intended."	POS

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