Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Fabio Meira's Two Irenes, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from November 5 – December 4, 2019 in Mubi's Debuts series.I don’t know whether the Brazilian director Fabio Meira saw Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique (1991) before directing his poignant fiction debut, Two Irenes (2017). It would certainly be simplistic to suggest that Meira lifted the concept of a double life from the Polish director, or that Kieślowski invented the idea. But there are striking parallels between the two films; thinking of them in conjunction makes the experience of watching Meira’s film all that richer. The Double Life of Veronique is a metaphysical riddle, in which two young women, one Polish and one French, both played by the Swiss actress Irène Jacob, are spit images of each other but never physically meet.
- 10/26/2019
- MUBI
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