TELESCOPE Find International Film

Advanced Options

◁ Return to canadanow microsite
 

The Double Life of Véronique(La double vie de Véronique)

✭ ✭ ✭ ✭   Read critic reviews

France, Poland, Norway
·
1991

Rated R · 1h 38m

Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
Starring Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Philippe Volter, Guillaume de Tonquédec

Genre Drama, Thriller

Play Trailer
Play Trailer
 
Add to watchlist
Add to my Watchlist

Born on the same day, one in Poland and the other in France, Véronique and Weronika look exactly the same with lives that follow an eerily similar course. Although they don't know each other, their lives are profoundly connecting, as they are both dimly aware of the other and the effect they have on each other's lives.

X

Stream The Double Life of Véronique

WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?

Be the first to comment about this film.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

70

Variety by

Despite pic’s many-splendored outbursts of filmic creativity and intense emotion, final result, about the opposite destinies of a Polish girl and a French girl who look alike and have the same name and tics, remains a head-scratching cipher with blurred edges.
100

The New Yorker by Anthony Lane

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.
80

Empire by David Parkinson

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.
100

Washington Post by Hal Hinson

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.
78

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

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.
100

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

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

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

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.
50

The New York Times by Vincent Canby

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.

USERS WHO LIKED THIS FILM ALSO LIKED

French movie from 1994: Three Colors: White

Three Colors: White

Krzysztof Kieślowski
1994 Switzerland, France, Poland

Three Colors: White
(Trois couleurs : Blanc)

  • ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
  • Switzerland, France, Poland • 1994
  • Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Cast Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr, Aleksander Bardini, Grzegorz Warchoł
  • Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery
  • Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, HBO Max

After his wife divorces him and frames him for arson, a Polish expatriate plots his revenge.

Play Trailer
Trailer
 
Add to watchlist
X
French movie from 1994: Three Colors: Red

Three Colors: Red

Krzysztof Kieślowski
1994 Switzerland, France, Poland

Three Colors: Red
(Trois couleurs : Rouge)

  • ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
  • Switzerland, France, Poland • 1994
  • Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Cast Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Frédérique Feder, Samuel Le Bihan, Marion Stalens
  • Genre Drama, Mystery, Romance
  • Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, HBO Max

Valentine is outraged that an ex-judge in her neighborhood taps phone calls, but their debates lead to a strange bond.

Play Trailer
Trailer
 
Add to watchlist
X
Dutch/Flemish movie from 1995: Antonia's Line

Antonia's Line

Marleen Gorris
1995 Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom

Antonia's Line
(Antonia)

  • ✭ ✭ ✭
  • Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom • 1995
  • Director Marleen Gorris
  • Cast Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans, Dora van der Groen, Veerle van Overloop, Esther Vriesendorp, Arne Bang-Hansen
  • Genre Drama, Comedy
  • Available on Apple iTunes, Film Movement Plus, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Pluto TV, FlixFling

A motion picture that celebrates everything you love about life.

Play Trailer
Trailer
 
Add to watchlist
X
Swedish movie from 1986: The Sacrifice

The Sacrifice

Andrei Tarkovsky
1986 Sweden, France, United Kingdom

The Sacrifice
(Offret)

  • ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
  • Sweden, France, United Kingdom • 1986
  • Director Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Cast Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter, Valérie Mairesse
  • Genre Drama
  • Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

To avert the end of the world, Alexander promises God that he'll give up everything he values in life, including his beloved son.

Play Trailer
Trailer
 
Add to watchlist
X
French movie from 2010: Certified Copy

Certified Copy

Abbas Kiarostami
2010 France, Italy, Belgium

Certified Copy
(Copie conforme)

  • ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
  • France, Italy, Belgium • 2010
  • Director Abbas Kiarostami
  • Cast Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore
  • Genre Drama, Romance
  • Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Plex, YouTube, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel

There's more to their new relationship than meets the eye.

Play Trailer
Trailer
 
Add to watchlist
X