Double Take - a fascinating film about Alfred Hitchcock

Intriguing: Double Take
10 April 2012

In this intriguing film from Belgian director Johan Grimon Prez, Alfred Hitchcock is called from the set of The Birds to the production office where he is confronted by his own Macguffin, who claims to be the real Hitch.

He is told that if you meet your double, you should kill him before he kills you. There follows a clever and often amusing montage of film, television and newsreel clips counterpointing the Fifties and Sixties with Hitch’s career.

The subject is substantially the man himself (introducing Hitchcock impersonator Ron Burrage for good measure) and his fascination with doubles. But it is also about how Hitch’s films, such as The Birds and Foreign Correspondent, mirrored the Cold War.

Adapted by the British novelist Tom McCarthy from a story by Jorge Luis Borges, it is a witty and resonant essay about one of the greatest of film-makers and his times. (Opens tomorrow)

Double Take

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