The Double Life of Veronique
Two identical women, one in Poland and one in France, live separate lives yet sense a mysterious bond with a second self they will never meet.
Cannes Film Festival, Best Actress and FIPRESCI Prize, 1991
Weronika in Krakow and Veronique in Paris look exactly alike and share a gift for music, though they have never met and do not know of each other. When one of them dies, the other feels an unaccountable loss and begins to sense that she is not alone in the world.
The film is a lyrical meditation on doubling and the unlived other self, giving image to the intuition that another version of a life runs alongside our own. It speaks to questions of identity, intuition, and mourning for what was never lived. It received the Best Actress award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
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- 1991
- France
- French
- Film