The most irresistible actress and woman on Earth:

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Irene Jacob

First time I watched the amazing Krysztof Kieslowski movie Double Life of Veronique with Irene I immediately fell in love with her and the movie become my most favorite. Her acting is so different from what I have usually seen on the movie screen, so warm, so innocent and clean... Her face expresses all the emotions so true that you have to believe that she is not pretending to be someone else, she IS the person that she plays.


I had a chance to see another great Irene's performance in Three Colours: Red (also directed by K. Kieslowski) and have to say that Irene is the most talented actress I have ever seen. (And as a real movie-maniac I have seen many, many, many great movies and actresses.)

 

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In the end, let me quote a few lines from press:

A Face That Tells the Story

The Swiss-born actress Irene Jacob has a remarkable ability to express her characters' emotional upheavals with very few words

By Kristine McKenna
Los Angeles Times, 1994


If you saw Krzysztof Kieslowski's new film, "Red," and fell in love with actress Irene Jacob - it's hard to imagine anyone seeing the film and not being enchanted by her - you'll be happy to hear that off-screen, the 28-year-old actress is a lot like Valentine, her character in the film. Radiantly beautiful, of course - anybody can see that like Valentine, Jacob is a knockout. But the subtler qualities that illuminate Jacob's character in the film - her modesty, her thoughtfulness and sensitivity - are part of Jacob as well.
Most memorably seen in Kieslowski's 1991 film "The Double Life of Veronique" (for which she won that year's best actress award at Cannes), the Swiss-born Jacob comes across during an interview in a Westwood hotel as an empathetic woman of great intelligence. It's not surprising to learn that her favorite actresses are Gena Rowlands, Giulietta Masina and Ingrid Bergman - Jacob has a luminous grace evocative of those stellar women... more

 

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