DOUBLE TAKE

DOUBLE TAKE

Country/ies
Belgium
Production
Emmy Oost
Editor
Length
80
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2008
Eurodoc Participant
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Year participation
2007
Distribution

Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately clammer to say the right things, live on TV.
Double Take targets the global political rise of "fear as a commodity" in a tale of odd couples and double deals. As television hijacks cinema, and the Krushchev and Nixon debate rattles on, sexual politics quietly take off and Alfred himself emerges in a dandy new role on the TV, blackmailing housewives with brands they can't refuse. The novelist Tom McCarthy writes a plot of personal paranoia to mirror the political intrigue, in which Hitchcock and his elusive double increasingly obsess over the perfect murder – of each other!
Subverting a meticulous array of TV footage and using "The Birds" as an essential metaphor, Grimonprez traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images' inception to the present day

Festivals & Awards
2009 Berlin International Film Festival (Germany)
2009 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (Argentina)
2009 Indielisboa (Portugal)
2009 Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada)
2009 London Film Festival (United-Kingdom)
2009 IDFA Festival (Netherlands)
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