Double Take (2009)

Recommended

Belgium/Germany/The Netherlands

Feature Documentary

Director: Johan Grimonprez

Writers: Johan Grimonprez, Tom McCarthy

Cinematographer: Martin Testar

Composer: Christian Halten

Narrator: Mark Perry

Featuring: Ron Burrage

Made up primarily of archive footage, Grimonprez’s unusual, satirical curio takes a entertaining look at the cold war, the politics of fear, insidious advertising, and cinema’s losing battle with television, all filtered through a meeting between a 62-year-old Alfred Hitchcock and his 80-year-old future self, a meeting that can only possibly end one way. Iain.Stott