Double Take (2009)

Directors

Johan Grimonprez

Cast

Bill Clinton, Diana Ross, Ed Herlihy, Fidel Castro, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Janet Leigh, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, John Vernon, Leonid Brezhnev, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mikhail Gorbachev, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Putin, Walter Cronkite

The story

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' short story 25th August, 1983, Double Take'''s narrative plot is based on a fictional encounter Alfred Hitchcock has with an older version of himself. Whilst on set of his 1962 film The Birds, Hitchcock calls a twelve-minute break in order to answer a phone call in one of the Universal Studios buildings. After a foreboding encounter with a security guard, Hitchcock finds his way into a room similar to the tearooms in both the Chasen's hotel in Los Angeles and the Claridge's hotel in London.

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