The Double Life of Veronique
A few years ago, we hosted a creative residency for photographer and cinephile Bertrand Carrière. This spring, we are publishing Tout ceci est impossible, an eloquent testament to that residency – an art book in which the arrangement of images is anything but random. Several of the films featured in this book will be screened as part of this program. Tout ceci est impossible is a co-edition between Somme toute and the Cinémathèque québécoise.
Winner of the Best Actress Award for Irène Jacob, 1991 Cannes Film Festival
Krzysztof Kieślowski follows the parallel destinies of two women, one Polish, the other French, who are identical: same date of birth, same physical appearance, same taste for music, etc.
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Born in 1941 in Warsaw, Krzysztof Kieślowski enrolled as a teenager in the theater school run by his uncle. He then decided to study directing and was admitted to the National Film School in Łódź, where he began making his first short films in the late 1960s. Throughout the following decade, he alternated between directing numerous documentaries, often of a social nature, and his first narrative features. In 1979, his film L'amateur was a major success. With Without End, in 1984, he began a long-standing collaboration with lawyer Krzysztof Piesiewicz, who co-wrote all his subsequent films. His next series of films, The Decalogue, brought him international recognition. In the early 1990s, the Three Colors trilogy — Blue, White, Red — turned out to be the high point of his career, as he died prematurely in 1996.
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