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DOUBLE TAKE
 | QFT
Monday 26 April 9.15pm
£6.50- £6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Johan Grimonprez / Belguim, Germany, The Netherlands / 2009 / 80 mins / Cert: 15 / Print source: Soda Pictures | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | A postmodern take on Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Nixon, human doubles, coffee, the Cuban Missile Crisis and everything in between. Double identities and screen representations are at the heart of Double Take.
Director Grimonprez mixes footage of Hitchcock, scenes from The Birds, and commercials and political news footage from the 1950s and 1960s to weave a deceptively simple connection between illusion and reality.
In amongst all this are scenes of professional Hitchcock impersonator Ron Burrage bimbling about, and a fictional voiceover in which Hitch describes how, in 1962, he met his future self from 1980 and killed him. In the end Double Take is a Cold War thriller that has Hitchcock himself at the very centre.
‚"If you meet your double, you should kill him. Or he will kill you. Two of you is one too many. By the end of the script, one of you must die."
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
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