Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Subverting a meticulous array of TV footage and using 'The Birds' as an essential metaphor, DOUBLE TAKE traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images' inception to the present day.
Editing
Seamless Hitchcock interview grafts feel almost illegal.
Direction
Grimonprez weaponizes found footage like a Cold War ghost.
Writing
Fictional Hitchcock dialogue drips with uncanny dread.
Director
Johan Grimonprez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ron Burrage was a professional Hitchcock impersonator discovered at a lookalike contest; Grimonprez built the entire film around his unsettling resemblance.
The film premiered alongside the real Hitchcock's newly restored archives, creating a genuine 'double take' at festivals where audiences briefly confused fiction and documentation.
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