So while this was always a family favorite, I can't say I ever paid too much attention to it. I just saw it again and, damn, it's much better than I remembered. While I remembered the song, I didn't remember the film interacting with so much depth on what it means to follow traditions and religious law. Sometimes with our modern culture today, I struggle with even understanding the very concept of "tradition" in the first place. And here is…

It's hard to find the words to describe how this film haunts you after you watch it. My favorite thing I've read on the film so far was simply in the introductory paragraphs of the little Criterion Collection book that comes with the DVD:

"Nigel Andrews of the Financial Times commented, 'I believe we are being hypnotized in The Double Life of Veronique ... How else to explain the ability of a French-Polish film with a nonsensical plot premise ...…

An understated, just under-the-surface, powerful performance by Redgrave as a classics professor whose career and subject of study has become increasingly unpopular in the modern age, and which has not been helped by his own temperament. He finds that one old epic Greek tragedy by Aeschylus parallels his own life in more ways than he at first suspected. It's got some memorable lines ("I am of the opinion that, occasionally, an anti-climax can be surprisingly effective." - "You must not…