Double Take Kino // Unrated // June 2, 2010 Review by Jason
Bailey | posted June 2, 2010 Highly Recommended E - M A I L this
review to a friend Graphical Version  Too often avant-garde or
experimental cinema, for all of its value, fails on a basic
level of engagement; somewhere it seems to be written that,
these days anyway, we can't have a good time at far-out movies.
There are experimental filmmakers out there, yes, and they're
doing work that is groundbreaking and earnest and thumbs its
nose at convention and pretention, but good God, some of it is
just plain unwatchable. Well, Johan Grimonprez's Double Take is,
for all intents and purposes, an experimental movie--a weirdo
assemblage of archival footage, marginally connected text, re-
enactments of imagined events, and oddball flights of fancy. I'm
still not quite sure how it all fits together, except as a free-
form film essay on everything from Alfred Hitchcock, the Cold
War, and doppelgangers to outer space, television, and coffee.
But it is enthralling c