The frame dissolves, the connection is palpable and, for a brief moment, the veil between you and the screen falls. It’s moments like this that make my heart happy that pictures can move.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 27, 2024

Each shot feels like a painting.

| Oct 10, 2024

A beautiful Irène Jacob, the Polish filmmaker's favorite muse, embodies two characters that are identical in their physiognomy and in the nature of their profession, although opposite in their respective temperaments. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 12, 2023

The Double Life of Véronique deals with weighty themes but never feels heavy-handed in the manner of other projects that attempt to introduce poeticism into the cinema.

| Feb 1, 2023

It's form of salvation comes from the brilliant Irene Jacob, the indispensible guide for this lovely journey towards nothing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 4, 2023

The director explores his subjects with a mixture of mystery and sensitivity [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 18, 2021

The dream-like mood of Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique is greatly enhanced by the performance of Jacob.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 26, 2021

A remarkable parable on the essential unknowability of human experience. How, outside of our homogenised worlds, the ephemera of images that we call "life" could be but a dream

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2018

Things became too self-referential to stomach.

| Jul 25, 2018

A film that washes over the viewer and invites meditative contemplation about our awareness while swimming the big river of consciousness. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 21, 2011

Haunting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2007

Erotic and mystical, a wondrous search for transcendence.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Jan 27, 2007

If Kieslowski's overarching metaphors about Weronika/Veronique seem strained, Jacob's sensuous and delicately nuanced performance will double your pleasure.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2006

a film all about subjectivity

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2006

Though pleasing to the eye, it's not everything we would have hoped for from Kieslowski.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2006

Kieslowski's most lyrical and metaphsical film, with a haunting performance from Irene Jacob, is also one of his most bizarre and enigmatic works--by design.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 18, 2006

We see through a glass darkly, and often confusingly, but at least we see.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2006

Compelling, challenging and irresistibly beautiful, this delicate metaphysical masterpiece only emphasises how much cinema lost through Krzysztof Kieslowski's tragically early death.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

If Double Life is arguably only half as rewarding as some of Kieslowski's other films, then it remains an indelible entry in an outstanding career.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 18, 2006