Johan Grimonprez : Double Take - "If You Meet Your Double, You Should Kill Him"

excerpt from "Double Take"
by Johan Grimonprez
© Zapomatik, 2009

"If you meet your double, you should kill him."

In his new film DOUBLE TAKE, acclaimed director Johan Grimonprez (dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y) 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 clamor to say the right things, live on TV.

DOUBLE TAKE targets the global rise of fear-as-a-commodity, in a tale of odd couples and hilarious double deals. As television hijacks cinema, and the Khrushchev and Nixon kitchen 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.

Bestselling novelist Tom McCarthy (Remainder, Tintin and the Secret of Literature) 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, Grimonprez traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from the inception of televised images to our present day zapping neurosis.

DOUBLE TAKE is edited by Tyler Hubby (The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Welcome to Death Row) and Dieter Diependaele.

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[one0man0band]

Just finished watching this. I had no idea what it was about when i sat down and turned it on but i'm glad i did. It is certainly something else

[murcielago17]

If not the best, one of the best movies I saw in Sundance this year

[camiecarnivore]

I saw the whole movie in malines

it was amazing !

[sugus06]

Can't wait to see the full piece. Many thanks for sharing.