The Double Life of Véronique (1991): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Zbigniew Preisner composed the score; however, in the film, the music is attributed to a fictitious 18th-century Dutch composer named Van den Budenmayer, who was created by Preisner and Kieślowski for use in screenplays.
• The film was the 50th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 592,241 admissions in France.
• Sławomir Idziak, the cinematographer, had previously experimented with these techniques in an episode of Dekalog, while Kieślowski expanded on the use of color for a wider range of effects in his Three Colours trilogy.
• What's remarkable about her performance is how quiet it is; as an actress, she seems to work almost off the decibel scale.
• The cinematographer, Slawomir Idziak, finds a glow in Irene Jacob's pre-Raphaelite beauty.
• Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and The Three Colours Trilogy are also on the list.
• The cinematography is highly stylized, utilizing color and camera filters to create an ethereal atmosphere.
• The puppet acts were performed by American puppeteer and sculptor Bruce Schwartz.

Source: Wikipedia

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