drama

The Double Life of Veronique is a French-Polish-Norwegian drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Irène Jacob.

romantic drama

Jean-Marc Vallée writes and directs this two-tiered French romantic drama.

existentialist fantasy

Widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the French New Wave, this existentialist fantasy tale is the result of a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet.

the epitome of a romantic film in the way , Kieslowski lovingly shoots the cracked facades of ancient buildings in Krakowthe way Veronique wraps Kieslowski's arms around Kieslowski's boyfriend on Kieslowski's motorcycle and the way the autumn leaves are scattered on a city street

The Double Life of Veronique is the epitome of a romantic film in the way Kieslowski lovingly shoots the cracked facades of ancient buildings in Krakow, the way Veronique wraps Kieslowski's arms around Kieslowski's boyfriend on Kieslowski's motorcycle and the way the autumn leaves are scattered on a city street.

a puzzle film, : itself a metaphor for lifea mystery that may have a design

The Double Life of Véronique is a puzzle film, itself a metaphor for life: a mystery that may have a design

epic

Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the story is an epic spanning decades and takes us to Napoleonic France whilst introducing us to characters likes the iconic Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert.

operetta yarn

The story is a time-honoured operetta yarn of an aristocrat (Hélène) disguising herself as a shop girl (“Véronique”) to test the love of the man (Florestan) Messager is destined to marry.

a meditation on chance and circumstance that finds its focus in a formal invocation of freeing, floating whims of dreamlike movement that resist stagnancy or ossification

Fittingly, then, The Double Life of Veronique is also, necessarily, a meditation on chance and circumstance that finds its focus in a formal invocation of freeing, floating whims of dreamlike movement that resist stagnancy or ossification.

French Gothic fiction

The genre is in fact a spin-off of 19th century French Gothic fiction and represents an attempt to explore society in an urban context.

Gothic novel

The story reads like a mix of Gothic novel and some of the Sardonic Tales of the French symbolist writer Villiers de L´Isle Adam, by Jeff Vandermeer's turn a fervent reader of Edgar Allan Poe.

La Ronde”,

The story is a “La Ronde”, a French style of theatre, which means that if the two of you were in a scene together, one of you continues in the next scene, and the next scene goes on like that.