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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Kino International
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Kino International
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary Johan Grimonprez’s ingenious documentary/fiction hybrid — a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia — looks at Alfred Hitchcock’s late 50s and early 60s film against the climate of Cold War-era political anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage – as well as a story by novelist Tom McCarthy about Hitchcock encou...

Directed By: Johan Grimonprez

Written By: Tom McCarthy, Johan Grimonprez

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Kino International
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Kino International
  • 1 h 20 m

Double Take

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Johan Grimonprez’s ingenious documentary/fiction hybrid — a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia — looks at Alfred Hitchcock’s late 50s and early 60s film against the climate of Cold War-era political anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage – as well as a story by novelist Tom McCarthy about Hitchcock encou...

Directed By: Johan Grimonprez

Written By: Tom McCarthy, Johan Grimonprez

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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88
Like the Master of Suspense's best films, Double Take (which makes great use of Bernard Herrmann's haunting "Psycho" score) is an intellectual puzzle that also works as a thoroughly accessible entertainment.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
80
A documentary that practically defies description, Grimonprez's film is playful, provocative and very, very watchable.
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70
Although it is composed mainly of archival footage and touches on a great many actual events, Double Take, as you may already have gathered, is not quite a documentary. It is, instead, a meditation on a series of loosely related themes drawn together, somewhat tenuously, by the familiar yet elusive sensibility that Hitchcock brought to Hollywood and then to American television.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
70
Despite its many ominous implications, Grimonprez also infuses Double Take with sly wit, inserting scenes from the TV program showcasing Hitchcock's wry sense of humor and the exaggerated domesticity of commercials sponsored by Folgers Coffee.
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67
Any 15-minute stretch of Double Take proves as enlightening as any other--more like a museum installation than a movie.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
40
It’s a neurotic treatise that simply adds to our cultural dementia instead of illuminating it.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Zap-O-Matik, Nikovantastic Film, Volya Films
Release Date Jun 4, 2010
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline If you meet your double, you should kill him.
Website http://www.doubletakefilm.com/
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Awards

Abu Dhabi Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
New Media Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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