Johan Grimonprez piece, 'documentary' may not cover it, it is rather an artistic exhibit, a visual essay on Hitchcock, the cold war, television and doubles.
This is a fun film to just watch. The images are put together well, with some powerful montage effects. The lergely noir-ish stylus is a pleasure at times. Some of the images selected are intriguing, fascinating, great to have a look at. The footage from 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents...' is a pleasure, no amount of that would be too much. Grimonprez has also well selcted some Nixon-Krushchev footage that deserves to be seen by everyone.
As for the thesis of the film? It is diifcult to get one's head around. The use of the dense Borges story hits us perhaps too quickly. It offers some interesting questions, of the double nature of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., as well as a few questions about Hitchcock. A slightly deeper analysis could have helped, or maybe that analysis was there, buried. Difficult to say. There isn't much analysis of the viewer''s relation to their own double...or is there? A few of the insertions of text are mildly facile.
This film is an ingteresting watch, with a selection of clips that we are delighted we have seen. The overall atmospheric is an arresting one. Reccomended, though it won't necessarily blow one's mind as it perhaps could have.
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