Description
Krzysztof Kieslowski: La Double Vie De Véronique / The Double Life Of Veronika (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Music Composed by Zbigniew Preisner / Virgin Audio CD
UPC 724384608026
The Double Life of Veronique (French: La double vie de Véronique, Polish: Podwójne życie Weroniki) is a 1991 drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Irène Jacob. Written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film explores the themes of identity, love, and human intuition through the characters of Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. Despite not knowing each other, the two women share a mysterious and emotional bond that transcends language and geography.
The Double Life of Véronique was Kieślowski's first film to be produced partly outside his native Poland. It won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Best Actress Award for Jacob. Although selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, it was not accepted as a nominee.
The film was scored by Zbigniew Preisner. 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. Music attributed to this imaginary composer also appears in two other Kieślowski films: Dekalog (1988), and Three Colours: Blue (1993). In the latter, a theme from Van den Budenmayer's musique funebres is quoted in the Song for the Unification of Europe, and the E minor soprano solo is foreshadowed in Weronika's final performance.
| Label: | Virgin – 724384608026 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Genre: | Electronic, Rock, Stage & Screen |
| Style: | Modern Classical, Classic Rock, Score |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Weronika | 0:38 | |
| 2 | Véronique | 0:24 | |
| 3 | Tu Viendras | 2:37 | |
| 4 | L' Enfance | 3:10 | |
| 5 | Van Den Budenmayer | 4:28 | |
| 6 | Véronique | 0:35 | |
| 7 | Solitude | 0:56 | |
| 8 | Les Marionnettes | 2:28 | |
| 9 | Thème : 1re Ttranscription | 0:54 | |
| 10 | L' Enfance II | 0:58 | |
| 11 | Alexandre | 1:14 | |
| 12 | Alexandre II | 1:12 | |
| 13 | Thème : 2e Transcription | 0:54 | |
| 14 | Concerto En Mi (Instrumentation Contemporaine N° 1) |
0:38 | |
| 15 | Concerto En Mi (Instrumentation Contemporaine N° 2) | 1:13 | |
| 16 | Concerto En Mi (Instrumentation Contemporaine N° 3) | 1:25 | |
| 17 | Van Den Budenmayer | 5:19 | |
| 18 | Générique De Fin | 1:26 |
- Chorus – Chœurs Philharmoniques De Silésie
- Conductor – Antoni Wit
- Engineer [Sound] – Aleksander Dowsilas, Zbigniew Malecki
- Flute – Jacek Ostaszewski
- Music By – Zbigniew Preisner
- Orchestra – Grand Orchestre De Katowice (Pologne)
- Vocals – Elzbieta Towarnicka
