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Series
Criterion collection volume 359
Language
Polish
Description
Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, is a French music teacher. Though they are unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond. The two were born on the same day and each senses that somewhere there exists another person with whom their lives are intertwined.
Series
Criterion collection volume 894
Language
Français
Description
Academy Award winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically...
Series
Criterion collection volume 359
Language
Français
Description
Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and Veronique, a French music teacher, have never met. However, the two women have a supernatural bond that affects each other's lives.