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Zbigniew Preisner

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Zbigniew Preisner was born on 20 May 1955 in Bielsko-Biała as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski. He's Poland's leading film music composer and is considered to be one of the most outstanding film composers of his generation. For many years Preisner enjoyed a close collaboration with the director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his scriptwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz. His scores for Kieslowski's films – Dekalog, The Double Life Of Veronique, Three Colours Blue, Three Colours White and Three Colours Red – have brought him international acclaim.

Zbigniew Preisner ~ La double vie de Véronique (1991)

"O voi che siete in piccioletta barca,
desiderosi d'ascoltar, seguiti
dietro al mio legno che cantando varca,
"Non vi mettete in pelago, ché forse,
perdendo me, rimarreste smarriti.
"L'acqua ch'io prendo già mai non si corse;
Minerva spira, e conducemi Appollo,
e nove Muse mi dimostran l'Orse."

~Van Den Budenmayer Concerto en Mi Mineu, Version de 1798~

Music: Van den Budenmayer - Concerto en mi mineur (SBI 152) Version de 1798 Composer: Zbigniew Preisner
Lyrics by Dante Alighieri (Divina Commedia - Paradiso: Canto II)

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Van den Budenmayer is a fictitious eighteenth-century Dutch composer created by Preisner and director Krzysztof Kieślowski for attributions in screenplays. Preisner said Van den Budenmayer is a pseudonym he and Kieślowski invented "because we both loved the Netherlands". Music "by" the Dutch composer plays a role in three Kieślowski films. Its E minor soprano solo is prefigured in the earlier film The Double Life of Veronique (1991), where circumstances in the story prevent the solo from finishing.

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La Double Vie De Véronique

The Double Life Of Veronika

Podwójne życie Weroniki

Veronikas to liv
Die zwei Leben der Veronika
La doppia vita di Veronica
La doble vida de Verónica

Original Film Soundtrack
Music by Zbigniew Preisner

Great Orchestra of Katowice and Philharmonic Choir of Silesia
Conductor: Antoni Wit
Soprano: Elzbieta Towarnicka
Flute, Recorder: Jacek Ostaszewski
Piano: Konrad Mastylo
Recorded by Zbigniew Malecki and Aleksander Dowsilas

Zbigniew Preisner
La Double Vie de Véronique
Format: CD, Album
Original Release Date: 15 May 1991 France, CD, Album November 22, 1991
Country: Polska, France, Norge
Genre: Classical, Soundtrack
Style: Electronic, Rock, Modern Classical, Classic Rock
Firma fonograficzna/Label: EMI Music Poland/Virgin France
© Virgin Records France
® 1991 Virgin France

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1 Weronika |0:38
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

2 Véronique |0:24
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

3 "Tu Viendras" |2:37
Great Orchestra Of Katowice

4 L' Enfance |3:10
Zbigniew Preisner

5 Van Den Budenmayer Concerto en mi mineur (SBI 152) Version de 1798 |4:28
Elzbieta Towarnicka (Soprano), Philharmonic Choir of Silesia

6 Véronique |0:35
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

7 Solitude |0:56
Zbigniew Preisner

8 Les Marionnettes |2:28
Zbigniew Preisner

9 Thème: 1ère Transcription |0:54
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

10 L' Enfance II |0:58
Zbigniew Preisner

11 Alexandre |1:14
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

12 Alexandre II |1:12
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

13 Thème: 2ème Transcription |0:54
Zbigniew Preisner

14 Concerto En Mi (Instrumentation Contemporaine N° 1) |0:38
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

15 Concerto En Mi (Instrumentation Contemporaine N° 2) |1:13
Zbigniew Preisner

16 Concerto En Mi (Instrumentation Contemporaine N° 3) |1:25
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

17 Van den Budenmayer Concerto en mi mineur (SBI 152) Version de 1802 |5:19
Elzbieta Towarnicka (Soprano), Philharmonic Choir of Silesia

18 Générique De Fin 1:26
Zbigniew Preisner, Jacek Ostaszewski (Flute)

Bonus:

"Verso il cielo" |4:28
Music by Zbigniew Preisner
Text from Dante Alighieri (as Dante)
Performed by Le Grand Orchestre de la Radio et Télévision Polonaise de Katowice, Choeurs Philharmonique de Silésie,
Elzbieta Towarnicka (soprano), Jacek Ostaszewski (flute)
Conducted by Antoni Wit

Total Length: 34:53

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| DDD | Audio CD | CBR 320 Kbps/48.1 kHz/Stereo |
|File Size: 111 mb. | Pass: weronika |

Choir - Great Orchestra Of Katowice (3)

Conductor - Antoni Wit
Flute - Jacek Ostaszewski (1, 2, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18)
Music by Zbigniew Preisner (1-4, 6-16, 18)
Vocals - Elzbieta Towarnicka (5, 17)

Starring Irène Jacob as Véronique and Weronika, Kieslowski's La Double Vie de Veronique explores the subject of human fragility through a highly imaginative dual narrative, addressing the possibility that we each have a spiritual twin. Preisner's score contains some of his most well-known themes, particularly "Van den Budenmayer Concerto in E minor" and "Les Marionnettes".

The music was recorded by Zbigniew Malecki and Aleksander Dowsilas and the soundtrack album was first released in 1991 on Sideral and re-issued on Virgin in 1998.

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Podwójne życie Weroniki

Podwójne życie Weroniki (fran. La double vie de Véronique) – metafizyczny dramat produkcji polsko-francusko-norweskiej w reżyserii Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego z 1991 roku. Pierwszy film Kieślowskiego zrealizowany poza granicami Polski.

Film opowiada o metafizycznym uczuciu, jakiego doświadczają dwie młode kobiety, o tym samym imieniu, urodzone tego samego dnia (23 listopada), mające niemal identyczne życiorysy i zainteresowania, ale mieszkające w różnych krajach – Weronika w Krakowie, a Veronique w Clermont-Ferrand. Kobiety nic o sobie nie wiedzą, odczuwają tylko niezrozumiały niepokój: jakby coś miało się stać. Gdy jedna z nich (Weronika) umiera na zawał serca podczas występu w filharmonii, druga podświadomie odczuwa stratę kogoś bardzo bliskiego. Od teraz zdarzenia kształtujące życie Veronique, prowadzą kobietę do momentu, w którym sobie uświadamia istnienie "bliźniaczki" Weroniki.

La double vie de Véronique

La Double Vie de Véronique est un film franco-polonais de Krzysztof Kieślowski, sorti en 1991.

...Deux femmes : une histoire mêlée. Alors que Weronika vit à Cracovie (Pologne), Véronique, elle, vit à Clermont-Ferrand (France).

Sans qu'elles se connaissent, la mort de l'une (Weronika), qui s'évanouit et s'éteint durant son premier concert de choriste, semble changer sensiblement la vie de l'autre Véronique.
Un film sur la vie et son double, sur le destin qui tire les fils des marionnettes humaines...

...Il y a 20 ans dans deux villes différentes (en France et en Pologne) naquirent deux petites filles pareilles. Elles n'ont rien en commun, ni père, ni mère, ni grands parents, et leurs familles ne se sont jamais connues.

Pourtant elles sont identiques : toutes deux gauchères, aiment marcher les pieds nus, et le contact d'un anneau d'or sur leurs paupières. Et surtout, toutes deux ont une voix magnifique, sublime, un sens musical absolu, et la même malformation cardiaque difficilement détectable. L'une profitera des expériences et de la sagesse de l'autre sans le savoir. Comme si chaque fois que la première se blessait avec un objet la seconde évitait le contact de ce même objet.

C'est une histoire d'amour, simple et émouvante. L'histoire d'une vie qui continue, quittant un être pour se perpétuer dans le corps et l'âme d'un autre être...

Autour du film:

À noter l'importance de la bande son dans ce film, en particulier dans la scène de l'écoute de la mini-cassette où l'on entend les bruitages liés aux scènes suivantes, ce qui donne une intensité très particulière.

Le film reçu un accueil chaleureux de la critique française, pour résumer : « Pour la première fois, peut-être, un film atteint à cette chose rare : le sublime. Kieslowski filme Véronique comme s'il suivait la respiration d'un être en train de se perdre. On sent cette angoisse de la perte et en même temps cette douceur de la mort dans l'extrême fluidité des plans, dans leur folie et dans leur constante beauté qui ne doit son existence qu'au "génie" du réalisateur. Tout est filmé comme une fuite perpétuelle des choses et des êtres qui semblent en suspens dans ce film bouleversant où l'émotion se dit avec une pudeur et une intelligence rare. »

La Double Vie de Veronique de Krzysztof Kieślowski (1991)

...Weronika lives in Poland. Véronique lives in Paris. They don't know each other. Weronika gets a place in a music school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point, Véronique's life seems to take a turn and she decides not to be a singer...

The Double Life Of Veronika

The Double Life of Véronique (French: La double vie de Véronique, Polish: Podwójne życie Weroniki) is a 1991 French- and Polish-language drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Irène Jacob. Written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film explores the themes of identity, love, and human intuition through the characters of Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. The two women do not know each other, and yet they share a mysterious and emotional bond that transcends language and geography. The film is notable for Sławomir Idziak's innovative cinematography and Zbigniew Preisner's haunting operatic score. The film was Kieślowski's first to be produced partly outside his native Poland. The Double Life of Véronique won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival for Krzysztof Kieslowski, and the Best Actress Award for Irène Jacob.

Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski

Starring: Irène Jacob

Music by Zbigniew Preisner

Cinematography: Sławomir Idziak

Editing by Jacques Witta

Distributed by Miramax (USA)

Release Date: 15 May 1991 France (Cannes Film Festival)

Produced by Leonardo De La Fuente

Filming Locations: Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland

Production Co: Sidéral Productions, Zespol Filmowy "Tor", Norsk Film

Storyline:

In Poland in 1968, a little girl is shown the stars in the winter sky by her mother, who identifies the Christmas Eve star. In France, a little girl is shown one of the first leaves of spring by her mother, who points out the fine veins running through.

In Poland in 1990, a young Polish woman named Weronika (Irène Jacob) is singing at an outdoor concert with her choir when a sudden downpour causes the singers to rush for cover. Weronika alone continues to hold the last note while the rain falls on her smiling face. After the concert, Weronika meets her boyfriend, Antek (Jerzy Gudejko), and they go to his apartment to make love. The next day she asks her father to tell Antek she is leaving to be with her sick aunt in Kraków. She tells him that lately she feels she's not alone in the world.

Weronika travels to Kraków by train looking out at the passing landscape through a small clear rubber ball. At her aunt's house, Weronika talks about her boyfriend, then meets a friend at a concert rehearsal. As the choir rehearses, Weronika, who is watching offstage, accompanies them in a beautiful high soprano voice. Afterwards, the musical director asks her to audition. Overjoyed, Weronika rushes home with the sheet music.

On the way, she passes through Main Market Square, where a protest rally is in progress. One protester runs into her, causing her to drop her music folder. After retrieving the sheet music, Weronika notices a French tourist taking photos of the protestors—a young woman who looks exactly like her. Weronika smiles as she watches her double board the tourist bus that soon pulls away.

At the audition, Weronika's singing impresses the musical director and conductor, and is later told that she won the audition. The next day, while on a trolley studying the score, Weronika notices her boyfriend Antek following on his motorbike. When they talk, she apologizes for not returning his calls, and Antek tells her he loves her. Later, while getting dressed for the concert, Weronika presses her face against a window and sees an old woman with shopping bags slowly making her way along the street. That night during the concert, while singing a solo part, Weronika collapses onstage and dies—her spirit passing over the audience.

In Paris that day, a young French woman named Véronique (Irène Jacob), after making love with her former boyfriend, is overwhelmed with sadness, as if she were grieving. The next day, at the school where she teaches music, Véronique attends a marionette performance with her class. During the performance—a story about a ballet dancer who breaks her leg and then turns into a butterfly—Véronique watches the puppeteer controlling the marionettes.

Back in her classroom, she leads her class in a musical piece by an eighteenth century composer, Van den Budenmayer—the same piece performed by Weronika when she died. That night while driving home, she sees the puppeteer at a traffic light motioning to her not to light the wrong end of her cigarette. Later she is awakened by a phone call with no one speaking, but in the background she hears a choir singing the music of Van den Budenmayer.

The next day, Véronique drives to her father's house where she reveals she is in love with someone she doesn't know, and that recently she felt she was alone—that someone was gone from her life. Back in Paris, Véronique receives a mysterious letter containing a shoelace which she throws away. That night she is awakened by a strange light reflecting from a neighbor's mirror. Véronique retrieves the mysterious shoelace, and later while contemplating her recent EKG graph, she holds the shoestring across the graph paper in a straight line.

Véronique learns that the puppeteer is a children's book author named Alexandre Fabbri (Philippe Volter), whose marionette story was based on his book Libellule & Papillon. One of his other books is about a shoelace. In the coming days, Véronique reads several of Alexandre's books. When Véronique visits her father, he gives her a package addressed to her containing a cassette tape. When she's alone, she listens to the mysterious recording of a typewriter, footsteps, a door opening, a train station, and a fragment of music by Van den Budenmayer. There are also sounds of a car accident and explosion. The postage stamp on the envelope leads Véronique to a Gare Saint-Lazare train station cafe where she believes the cassette recording was made. There she sees Alexandre sitting by himself, as if waiting for her. He tells her he's been waiting for her for two days, that he's working on a new book, and that this was a kind of experiment to see if she would come to him. Angered at being manipulated, Véronique leaves and takes a taxi to a nearby hotel, After checking in, she sees Alexandre, who apparently ran after the taxi. He asks for her forgiveness, and she brings him up to her room, where they both fall asleep. During the night, he wakes her up and tells her he loves her, and they make love.

The next morning she tells him, "All my life I've felt like I was here and somewhere else at the same time." While looking at a proof sheet of photos taken on Véronique's recent trip to Poland, Alexandre notices what he thinks is a photo of Véronique, but she assures him it is not her, that she in fact took the photo—of a young Polish woman carrying a music folder. Véronique crumples the proof sheet and breaks down in tears. Alexandre comforts her and they make love again. Later at his apartment, Véronique sees Alexandre working on a new marionette with her image. When asked about the purpose of a second identical marionette, Alexandre explains, "I handle them a lot when I perform. They get damaged easily." He shows her how to work the one marionette while the double lays lifeless on the table.

Some time later, Alexandre reads his new book to Véronique about two women, born the same day in different cities, who have a mysterious connection. Later that day, Véronique arrives at her father's house, stops at the front gate, and reaches out and touches an old tree.

Full Cast:

Irène Jacob as Weronika/Véronique

Halina Gryglaszewska as The Aunt

Kalina Jędrusik as The Gaudy Woman

Aleksander Bardini as The Orchestra Conductor

Władysław Kowalski as Weronika's Father

Guillaume De Tonquédec as Serge

Jerzy Gudejko as Antek

Philippe Volter as Alexandre Fabbri

Sandrine Dumas as Catherine

Janusz Sterninski as The Lawyer

Louis Ducreux as The Professor

Claude Duneton as Véronique's Father

Lorraine Evanoff as Claude

Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus as Jean-Pierre

Alain Frérot as The Postman

Youssef Hamid as The Railroader

Thierry de Carbonnières as The Teacher

Chantal Neuwirth as The Receptionist

Nausicaa Rampony as Nicole

Boguslawa Schubert as The Woman in the Hat

Jacques Potin as The Man in the Gray Coat

Filming style:

The film has a strong fantasy element, though the supernatural aspect of the story is never explained. Like the later Three Colors: Blue, it showcased Preisner's musical score as a major plot element, crediting his work to the fictional Van den Budenmayer. The cinematography is highly stylized, using color and camera filters to create an ethereal atmosphere; the cinematographer, Sławomir Idziak, had previously experimented with these techniques in one episode of The Decalogue, and Kieślowski would later use color for a wider range of effects in his Three Colors trilogy. Kieślowski had earlier used the idea of exploring different paths in life for the same person, in his Polish film Przypadek (Blind Chance), and the central choice faced by Weronika/Véronique is based on a brief subplot in the ninth episode of The Decalogue.

Krzysztof Kieslowski's international breakthrough remains one of his most beloved films, a ravishing, mysterious rumination on identity, love, and human intuition. Irène Jacob is incandescent as both Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. Though unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond, which Kieslowski details in gorgeous reflections, colors, and movements. Aided by Slawomir Idziak's shimmering cinematography and Zbigniew Preisner's haunting, operatic score, Kieslowski creates one of cinema's most purely metaphysical works. The Double Life of Veronique is an unforgettable symphony of feeling.

Krzysztof Kieslowski focuses on identity using naturalistic and sultry actress Irene Jacobs in the dual role of French music teacher Veronique and Polish soprano Weronika - both born on the same day. Metaphysically they are aware of each other's counterpart and it harkens back to the director's penchant for fate, chance and circumstance and we envision a possible meeting of the intertwined souls. Both mysterious and spiritual, Kieslowski touches us with the universally hopeful destiny of a parallel kindred spirit. Our unspoken desire for a mirrored being - who can non-verbally share our most intimate loves and joys - is the ultimate expression of personal support. The director's use of music and atmosphere again appears unmatched in the modern era of film. Overall, an ambiguous and enigmatic offering, this is a film that clings to you for years after viewing. A true masterpiece of cinema.

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Nagrody:

Film nominowany był do ośmiu nagród m.in. do Złotego Globu w kategorii: najlepszy film obcojęzyczny

Otrzymał cztery nagrody, w tym trzy na festiwalu w Cannes: dla Kieślowskiego (FIPRESCI Prize), dla Irene Jacob (najlepsza aktorka) i "od rady ekumenicznej"

Récompenses:

Festival de Cannes 1991 : Prix d'interprétation féminine pour Irène Jacob

Prix de la Critique Internationale FIPRESCI (1991)

Prix du Jury œcuménique (1991)

Awards and nominations:

1991 Cannes Film Festival Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Krzysztof Kieślowski) Won

1991 Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize (Krzysztof Kieślowski) Won

1991 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress (Irène Jacob) Won

1991 Cannes Film Festival Nomination for the Golden Palm (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Music (Zbigniew Preisner) Won[N 5]

1991 Warsaw International Film Festival Audience Award (Krzysztof Kieślowski) Won

1992 César Awards Nomination for Best Actress (Irène Jacob)

1992 César Awards Nomination for Best Music Written for a Film (Zbigniew Preisner)

1992 Golden Globe Awards Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

1992 Independent Spirit Awards Nomination for Best Foreign Film

1992 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film Won

Irène Jacob

Irène Jacob au festival de Cannes 1991

Irène Jacob, est une actrice française née le 15 juillet 1966 à Paris, en France.

Née à Paris, Irène Jacob, fille du physicien Maurice Jacob, passe son enfance à Genève, où ses parents s'installent alors qu'elle n'a que trois ans. Passionnée par le théâtre, elle revient à Paris en 1984, l'année de ses 18 ans. Elle doit sa première apparition au cinéma à Louis Malle qui lui confie le rôle d'une professeur de piano pour quelques scènes du film Au revoir les enfants en 1987. L'année suivante, Jacques Rivette la retient pour un petit rôle dans La Bande des quatre.

En 1991, elle incarne l'héroïne de La Double Vie de Véronique de Krzysztof Kieslowski. Pour ce rôle, elle obtient le prix d'interprétation féminine à Cannes. Elle a alors 24 ans. En 1993, le réalisateur polonais lui confie le premier rôle féminin de Rouge, le dernier volet de Trois couleurs. Elle y donne la réplique à Jean-Louis Trintignant et y côtoie Juliette Binoche et Julie Delpy, les héroïnes de Bleu et Blanc, dans la scène finale.

Malgré la reconnaissance de la critique, son début de carrière est consacré à des films confidentiels. Polyglotte, Irène Jacob se construit, dans un second temps, une carrière internationale. C'est ainsi qu'elle joue sous la direction de Michelangelo Antonioni et Wim Wenders dans Par-delà les nuages en 1995, et obtient un rôle dans U.S. Marshals aux côtés de Tommy Lee Jones et Wesley Snipes. L'année suivante, elle apparait, sportive et sexy portant un pantalon de cuir noir, dans un film d'espionnage finlandais Spygames en jeune et ambitieuse recrue du KGB. Par ailleurs, elle n'oublie pas le théâtre où elle concrétise quelques projets.

Sa filmographie est très éclectique allant du drame à la comédie en passant par les films d'action, sous la caméra de réalisateurs de toute nationalité, reconnus ou confidentiels.
Parallèlement à sa carrière de comédienne, elle a également chanté en duo avec, entre autres, Vincent Delerm et avec l’Orchestre National de Jazz. Irène Jacob est également la voix française de l'attraction Studio Tram Tour à Disneyland Paris.
En 2011, Irène a sorti un album Je sais nager, composé avec son frère Francis Jacob, guitariste de jazz.
Le chanteur Jean-Luc Le Ténia lui a dédié une chanson intitulée Irène Jacob sur son album L'amour et/ou la poésie.

La beauté ne meurt jamais!

Récompenses:

1991 : Festival de Cannes : Prix d'interprétation féminine - La Double Vie de Véronique
1992 : Nommée au César de la meilleure actrice pour La Double Vie de Véronique
1995 : Nommée au César de la meilleure actrice pour Trois Couleurs : Rouge

Irene Jacob & Francis Jacob's Je Sais Nager (2011)

"My family was very shy with feelings and never spoke about them, but we evolved a little bit. I think part of the reason I was attracted to theater was because I wanted to be close to stories because they could help me relate to my family."

Date of Birth: 15 July 1966, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France

This beautiful, dark-haired Swiss actress made a hit with a supporting role in her first film, as the piano teacher in Louis Malle's "Au revoir, les enfants" (1987). Educated in London and Geneva, and a Paris resident since the age of 18, Jacob became a promising starlet with her Malle success and followed up with another small role in Jacques Rivette's "La bande des quatre/The Gang of Four" (1989). 5Stardom (and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award) arrived with Jacob's dual role as two women whose lives are mysteriously linked in Krzysztof Kieslowski's psychological drama "The Double Life of Veronique" (1991).

Beauty never dies!

She ventured to the US for a ronantic comedy, "Trusting Beatrice" (1991), fittingly, about a young French woman's arrival in the US. After the small film "The Van Gogh Wake" (1993), she played the ill-fated mother in Agnieszka Holland's touching and acclaimed "The Secret Garden" (1993).

Valentine, Visionneuse de Irène Jacob
Trois Couleurs: Rouge (1994) de Krzysztof Kieslowski

Several more small French films followed, but it took a reunion with Kieslowski to jump-start Jacob's career again. In his "Red/Rouge" (1994), the final segment of his "Three Colors" trilogy (and his swan song), Jacob starred as a Swiss fashion model who meets a cynical aging ex-judge (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant) after she runs over his dog. In the film, she served as an emotional and spiritual curative for the old man; the second time, Kieslowski employed Jacob as a woman who offers a man consolation and mystery. 6Jacob followed up as a religious devotee in Michaelango Antonioni's episodic "Beyond the Clouds/Par-dela les nuages" (1995), then ventured to England to play Desdemona to Laurence Fishburne's "Othello" (also 1995). Jacob has several foreign-made films in the can which have not yet been released in the US: she plays an East Indian beauty with Willem Defoe and Sam Neill in "Victory" (filmed in 1994), an ill-fated vacationer in "Fugueuses/Runaway" and a French actress in 1948 who befriends a mysterious tramp (Stephen Rea) in "All Men Are Mortal" (both shown at Cannes in 1995).