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| Certificate: | E |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
| Year of release: | 2009 |
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This part mock-documentary, part conceptual artwork by Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez posits Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. The film subverts a mixture of archive TV and newsreel material, classic film footage and newly-shot scenes to construct a new tale of mystery and paranoia that appears to be narrated by Hitchcock himself.
| Starring: | Ron Burrage, Delfine Bafort |
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| Director: | Johan Grimonprez |
| Run time: | 82 minutes |
| Languages: | English |
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Universal Studios California, 1962. Alfred Hitchcock, on the set of THE BIRDS, is called to the production office for an urgent message. When he arrives, he's shocked to be confronted by his doppelganger, claiming to be the real Alfred Hitchcock and who declares: 'If you meet your double, you should kill him. Or he will kill you. Two of you is one too many. By the end of the script, one of you must die'. Alfred Hitchcock stars in DOUBLE TAKE, a tale of intrigue, personal paranoia and deception. Using archive footage, the film uses Hitchcock's own sardonic wit to explore his preoccupation with doubles - a recurring theme in his films - to virtuoso and entertaining effect. Positioned against the backdrop of the Cold War and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges novella 'The Other', best-selling British author Tom McCarthy writes a plot to mirror the political intrigue in which Hitchcock and his elusive double increasingly obsess over the perfect murder of each other.
Press Association
Drama-documentary exploring paranoid attitudes that became prevalent in Cold War-era America and how this was reflected in the films and television programmes of Alfred Hitchcock. The exploration of the era is presented through a fictional story, in which the master of suspense meets his exact double on the set of The Birds
