The 1991 film, ‘The Double Life of Veronique,’ features a very unique doppelgänger situation. Roger Ebert coins the Krzysztof Kieslowski film a “mysterious and poetic” masterpiece, which I found to be completely true. The movie follows two young women, Veronique who resides in France, and Veronika who lives in Poland. The two women were born on the same day, have identical heart problems, and both possess a beautiful singing voice. The strangest fact of the film, however, is that one dies and the other does not. The movie follows Veronika up until the moment she suddenly collapses at a music recital, but the movie is then continued in Paris. We see Veronique experience a fleeting pain, but otherwise nothing links the two identical women to each other. The viewer sees that the women look the exact same and have specific traits in common, yet the two never cross paths. I think the film is an interesting interpretation of doppelgängers because it leaves numerous questions with the viewers. Did Veronika really die? Are the women even doppelgängers at all? Do I have a doppelgänger I don’t know about? There are no clues as to whether the two women have any connections at all. We simply see one woman, then we see the other. The mystery invoked in the film can relate to all of us viewers as well. What are the chances there is someone halfway across the world who looks the exact same we do? We could live our whole lives never knowing such a thing. That is what makes ‘The Double Life of Veronique’ so mysterious.