I have not yet done anything resembling a systematic study of "La Double Vie de Veronique" but was happy to see a posting on it from Peggy Weaver in Santiago. Kieslowski toys with the idea of a psychic connection between the two Veroniques, of course, by having the French Veronique express an unexplained sadness on the day that her Polish counterpart is dying. Late in the film, the creation of two puppets to portray one character in the puppeteer's show, if interpreted on a human level, might be meant to suggest that each of us indeed has an alter ego. Kieslowski gives us, in this film, alter egos who look exactly alike (which wouldn't necessarily have to be the case) and who, ironically, inhabit the same square in Kracow in the same instant, before the French tour bus pulls away. The idea may be that the lives of alter egos are fated to interact at some point. I want to do more thinking about the film and would love to have comments about what others have found in it. In a course I teach involving both fiction and film from the last half of the 20th century, I have had the students study works involving the doppelganger or alter ego, including the film "Desperately Seeking Susan" and the short story by Philip Roth entitled "Eli, the Fanatic" from the collection "Goodbye, Columbus and Other Stories." Dan Gribbin Ferrum College Ferrum, VA [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]