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  Review by Emily Housel ★★★★

  emo Amelie

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 15

  Have you ever tried to describe a half remembered dream? It is practically impossible. You'll always end up relating the broad strokes, perhaps remembering something symbolic, but never failing to forget how it made you feel. That is both what Kieslowski's film is about and manages to evoke within its audience.

  I'm glad my tendency to always want to analyze and understand everything quickly took the back seat, allowing me to revel in the captivating beauty of the film and let its dream like content resonate with me.

  In beautiful red, yellow and green the quartet of performer, director, cinematographer and composer create something that can only be a film and is therefore cinema at its most pure form. There…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★★ 2

  “it’s as if i were grieving”

  a little while ago i finished watching this on a train and immediately dozed off. and the next time i opened my eyes, the elderly couple sitting across the row from me had been replaced with a new, younger couple. just staring at me

  i can’t really describe the kind of melancholy this movie fills me with, but it was so strong that i’ve put off rewatching for a while now, despite desperately wanting to. and yet today i pressed play without question. this will stick with me forever, i think

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  Review by liam f ★★★★½ 4

  this happened to my buddy Laura Palmer

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  Review by mary ★★★ 6

  beautiful but i have no idea what the fuck happened

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 14

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "All my life I've felt like I was here and somewhere else at the same time. It's hard to explain. But I know... I always sense what I should do."

  Well now, that was the most beautiful composition of yellow, green, and red I think I've ever seen. There was some movie stuff going on too (you know: plot, characters, etc.), but I was just looking at the colors.

  This movie is something of an enigma, and because I don't have the proper proficiency with poetic language to describe how gorgeous it is, instead what I'd like to do is walk through a very simple reading of it. If you haven't seen the film and clicked past the spoiler warning…

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  Review by rudi ★★★★★ 2

  if I watch another Krzysztof Kieślowski movie and the same old lady walks down the street holding some trash or tries again to put a glass bottle in the bin I think I’ll fucking lose my mind

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 5

  *Coldplay voice* And that movie was all yellow

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  Review by Jonny ★★★★

  Very rarely am I this engaged in a film in which I have next to zero clue what is going on.

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  “i have a strange feeling. i feel like i’m not alone. like i’m not alone in the world.”

  a glorious saturated daydream, but too vague for me to take it all in at once. i have a feeling this will get better the longer it soaks in

  “not long ago, i had a strange sensation. i felt that i was alone.”

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  Review by PTAbro ★★★★½ 11

  PTAbro's World Tour Stop 10: Poland

  Colors and reflections. Ghosts and puppets. Dreams and death. Sight and touch. Song and dance. A rich tapestry of obfuscated reality, of imagined lives, both present and afar. Who are we? Where are we? Why are we? Is any of it real? If it is, how real is it?

  The Double Life of Véronique is a question of identity, of how much our "I" belongs to other people. Of how much of "them" resides in us. Are we puppets of a loving caretaker, playing our parts for his celestial audience? Or are we the music-makers, who guide his hands to protect us from harm, who demand from him a safety net of human consciousness…

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 8

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "What else do you want to know about me?"

  Well, here we are again. I managed to wait a whole 3 weeks before watching this again. I think it's official: I'm in love. I think I'm also finally ready to talk about it without spoiler tags, so hopefully I can convince those of my followers who haven't seen it to give it a chance.

  If you're used to traditional narrative cinema, The Double Life of Véronique can be a little difficult to access. Not because it's necessarily smarter than your average blockbuster, but rather because by shifting its focus from story to atmosphere it cuts out a lot of "unnecessary" transitional information. Weronika/Véronique will suddenly show up in a different…