The Double Life of Véronique(OBS)

Irène Jacob turns in a luminous performance in dual roles as doppelgängers – the French Véronique and the Polish Weronika – in Kieślowski’s groundbreaking metaphysical drama that established him as contemporary world cinema’s preeminent purveyor of spiritual mystery. The director’s preoccupation with such notions as chance and destiny is given a virtuoso cinematic workout featuring characteristically expressionist film aesthetics, commandingly executed with the help of such regular collaborators as cinematographer Sławomir Idziak and composer Zbigniew Preisner. Kieślowski’s postsocialist turn to an accessible spirituality of the senses held crossover appeal even beyond arthouse audiences, and proved both enormously popular and influential in the 1990s. Presented in 4K restoration.