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burk |
| Subject |
la Double vie de Veronique |
| Date |
09.11.2001 |
| Time | 19:37 |
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| Message |
i´ve noticed this site´s author likes kieslowski and his films. i would like to know what you think about la double vie de... i think it´s one of my favourite films but i couldn´t explain why. could you tell me what do you like the most in this film? and i also wanted to ask you somethingto this site author. you say veronique comes back home and meets her father. i think you`re referring to the us version, but i think the end of the film is quite different in the european version. could you explain us something about this differences? i´d be really glad to hear from you. thanks a lot |
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| Name | Lenyo |
| Subject | Veronique |
| Date | 21.02.2003 |
| Time | 02:34 |
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| Message | Yes, It surely sounds funny, but this film has partly changed my life. (My ideology). It helped me to understand senses, feelings which existence I hadn't even known. Understand a special world I hadn't even felt the absence of. ... Kieslowski forever of course |
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| Name | Peter Balov |
| Subject | la double vie de veronique |
| Date | 03.02.2003 |
| Time | 08:11 |
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| Message | Is the movie La Double Vie de Veronique availabel on DVD somewhere on this world? And if yes, where? |
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| Name | Felim |
| Subject | Kieslowski |
| Date | 30.11.2002 |
| Time | 21:56 |
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| Message | This festival may be of interest to you, Visions of Kieslowski: www.visions.ie
regards,
Felim |
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| Name | Pascal |
| Subject | La double vie ... #287 |
| Date | 17.06.2002 |
| Time | 18:56 |
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| Message | what do you think the meaning of the hotel room number ( for both Veronique) #287 means ? |
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| Name | Martin |
| Subject | Endings of "La double vie de veronique" |
| Date | 16.04.2002 |
| Time | 11:22 |
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| Message | The only ending for "La double vie de veronique" I've ever seen (in Europe, and in Germany to be precise) is the one where Veronique stops her car in front of a tree, lowers the window, and, stretching her arm out, touches softly the bark of the tree. Simultaniously, her father is looking up, evidently (?) having heard something, Veronique returning? The noise of the car?
Now, is this the ending you referred to?
Martin
(martin.boehler@uni-koeln.de) |
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| Name | Burk-Graham |
| Subject | Kieslowski |
| Date | 17.03.2002 |
| Time | 01:10 |
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| Message | Friends! I agree that many things in Kieslowski's films are worthy of admiration. In my opinion, this is LOVE, perhaps, inner freedom, that unites Colours and Lives of Kieslowski, sounds in Preisner's music, makes the language useless and clear for all of us. LOVE...not only between a man and a woman, parents and children,but LOVE to people around you, LOVE to this life, to colours of this life. Maby it's stupid, but I'm still sure that LOVE is a basis of our existence. And again - Kieslowski forever. |
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| Name | Burk |
| Subject | La Double Vie de Veronique |
| Date | 15.01.2002 |
| Time | 03:10 |
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| Message | Burk:
Admittedly I'm not the site's author but I can't restrain myself from replying to your message, probably at great length. I think that '...Veronique' is one of the greatest films I am ever likely to see. To respond to your points (probably in the wrong order): the reason the US version of the flim (which is rather tragically the only one available on video in the UK) ends with Veronique going back home to meet her father was to make it clear to US audiences that this is what she was doing. Apparently early viewings in the States made it clear to the director that they Didn't Quite Get It. Too oblique. Yes, I know. It's appalling. The European ending is not definitive (which pleases me since I like non-definitive endings in films), yet it was certainly obvious to me where she was going.
There are so many things I love about this film, and few of them are quantifiable. The music is just beyond. The use of a gold filter and the astonishing effect of this is, I suppose, quite straightforward. It seems to me that many of Kieslowski's films are about synchronicity and the intention of the universe almost cancelling out the will of man. They're about knowing but having no concrete 'proof'. This is also true of 'Red' (a very boring and irrelevant fact here that you might not know is that all three 'Colours' films are simultaneous: thought I'd throw that in). Back to Veronique. It is more or less inexplicable. But yet, it's not. I would say, the reason it's one of your favourite films is because of how it makes you feel. I often think that language is very restricting and useless because there are so many things which cannot be explained with it. I'm a shamanic practitioner and often find this to be a stumbling block when working with clients. After a soul retrieval (or whatever), I say: how do you feel? And they can't quite locate the words. For me, it is the same with Kieslowski. It is the feeling, and the feeling cannot always be verbalised. It can only be felt. So, I know where you're coming from.
I could get started on 'Blue' but I'd be here all f***ing night. The greatest film ever made.
E-mail me if you like: GrahamClarke20@msn.com.
Kieslowski forever.
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