“Fascinating, confounding, and beautiful.” – New York Magazine
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.
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