The Double Life of Veronique tells the mystically entwined stories of two identical women with the same name, one a soprano in Kraków, the other a music teacher in Paris, unaware of each other's existence. The former dies suddenly mid-performance and then we switch to the French half where her counterpart has unsettling intuitions of something beyong her ken. A psychologically highly-strung love story develops between her and a puppeteer who tells a story with his puppets that mirrors what happened to the Polish Weronika.
This is a work of nuances and luminous images rather than a prescriptive narrative, and that is both its strength and weakness: its primary purpose is to allude and discomfit, and that may not work for everyone. But the fresh-faced Irène Jacob in the twin role (dubbed into Polish for the first part) is a captivating presence, coquettishly flighty at one moment, fragile the next.
7/10
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