Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.


December 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 74

Total Comments: 65


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The Double Life of Veronique / La Double vie de Véronique / France / Poland / Norway / 1991

Each of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films may be seen as componential to a larger whole. Superficially, this film — concerning Weronika, a Pole, and Véronique, French — contains his transition from the frost-bitten cobblestone roads of Dekalog to the more affluent urban locations in Trois couleurs. And perhaps due to this transition, the film is more abstruse than its bookends, and I was immersed in it for precisely this reason. There is no moral or ethic dilemma, and the emphasis isn’t the physical parameters of coincidence but rather the emotional parameters—how Véronique and Weronika sense each other even though they have never met. A beautiful film that is more absorbed than it is watched.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: The Criterion Collection DVD
07 Dec 2006 11:37 AM | Submit Comment


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