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Do movies grow old? They may physically fade, as the film stock decays; they may look dated, as the trappings, or the actorly mannerisms, of a former age become more glaring; but what of the feelings that they generate, or the gestures that they sought to enshrine? These questions crowded in as I watched "The Double Life of Veronique," a film that held me in a discomforting trance when I saw it, and resaw it, on its first appearance, in 1991. Now it is back, as part of the Krzysztof Kie?lowski season at Lincoln Center, running from April 5th through April 23rd. The retrospective includes early shorts and rare documentaries, and all Kie?lowski fans will have their touchstones; some will bow before his noble "Three Colors" trilogy, completed two years before his death, in 1996, while purists will insist on the supremacy of the "Decalogue," a series of films rooted in the Ten Commandments. Novices, however, might care to begin with mid-career puzzlers such as "No End" or "Blind Chance," or, better still, to dive into "Veronique."
The film stars Irene Jacob, first as Veronika, a student in Krakow, and then as Veronique, a music teacher in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. The women are unrelated and unknown to one another, but they are identical, and, at one miraculous instant, they are separated by a matter of yards. In short, they are soul mates. You can only hope...
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