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The Double Life of Véronique
Why this pick
Kieślowski again turns private longing into tactile, mysterious cinema, with amber light, fragile intuition, and an intimate focus on emotional connection across distance.
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MOVIE1988 1h 27m POL
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Nineteen-year-old Tomek is living in an apartment complex in Warsaw with his godmother—staying in her son's room while he's away. Raised in an orphanage, the shy Tomek has few friends and works as a postal clerk. Tomek has been spying on a beautiful older woman, Magda (Grażyna Szapolowska), who lives in an adjacent apartment complex. Using a telescope, he watches her every night performing mundane tasks, working on her artwork, and entertaining men. To get closer to her, he slips fake postal notices in her mailbox for a nonexistent money order at his post office. He also calls her anonymously to hear her voice. Tomek's obsession is focused more on her everyday activities rather than her sex life; when he sees her becoming sexual with men, he trains the telescope away and does not watch.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Artur Barciś
Young Man
Olaf Lubaszenko
Tomek