Belgium / Germany / Netherlands,
2009, 80 min
Directed by:
Johan GrimonprezComposer:
Christian HaltenCast:
Leonid Brezhnev, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, George W. Bush, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Walter Cronkite, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Jacqueline Kennedy (more)Plots(1)
Johan Grimonprez's ingenious documentary/fiction hybrid a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia looks at Alfred Hitchcock's late 50s and early 60s films against the climate of Cold War-era political anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage as well as a story by novelist Tom McCarthy (Remainder) about Hitchcock encountering his double during production of 'The Birds', Grimonprez traces the global rise of fear as a commodity, examining modern history through the lens of mass media, advertising and Hollywood. (official distributor synopsis)
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