Double Take

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.

A documentary that practically defies description, Grimonprez's film is playful, provocative and very, very watchable.

...there is fascination, and something genuinely disturbing, in every frame.

...constructed in a way that would make any theory thrown at it nigh on impossible to disprove, and that is perhaps one of its key pleasures.

...it reframes memories as sensory effects, unstable and meaningful nonetheless, each moment simultaneously profound and trivial, random and determinative.