Rotten
Hardly earth-shattering enough for a 5-minute short, much less an 80-minute movie.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Double Take
If you meet your double, you should kill him.
2009 · 1h 20m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Johan Grimonprez
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
72%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Hitchcock was a master of mischief and misdirection, and no film so thoroughly infused with his spirit could be dull or predictable.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Fresh
This isn't a normal movie; it's an art installation. And whatever it may have been meant to be, it takes its real meaning from you.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
By contrasting Hitchcock's explanation of "The MacGuffin" with TV commercials and old arguments over who's winning the Cold War, Grimonprez makes a case for how historical events can be driven by threats more perceived than actual.
Noel Murray, AV Club
Rotten
A way of showing how the Master of Suspense's work captured the zeitgeist, and how the zeitgeist responded by getting dumberer.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
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