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Richard Ayoade | United Kingdom | 2014 | 93 min | English
Simon James, a timid man in a dreary, grey high-rise world is ignored by colleagues and superiors alike at his deadening office job, which is extra painful when it comes to Hannah – the girl of his dreams – who works in the copy room. But then his department hires someone new, James Simon. He looks exactly like Simon, but almost everyone takes to him straight away. What starts out as friendship between the two doubles quickly takes a sinister turn.
Based on Dostoyevsky’s eponymous novel, director Richard Ayoade has created a dystopian alternative reality in which Simon threatens to be crushed in a Kafkaesque manner by an impersonal society in which everyone’s just a number.
Ayoade is proud of his influences – Terry Gilliam’s Brazil being a particularly clear inspiration, but tells a very idiosyncratic and extremely contemporary tale. What’s left of you, if everyone’s the same?
Place: The Cinemas 6
Date: 03/26/2015
Time: 22:00:00
Duration: 01:45:00
Place: The Cinemas 2
Date: 03/27/2015
Time: 14:30:00
Duration: 01:45:00
Year in
Festival
2015
Director
Richard Ayoade
Camera
Erik Wilson
Cast
Jesse Eisenberg
Mia Wasikowska
Wallace Shawn
Yasmin Paige
Noah Taylor
James Fox
Cathy Moriarty
Country
United Kingdom
Editor
Chris Dickens
Nick Fenton
Language
English
Length
93 min
Music
Andrew Hewitt
Producer
Amina Dasmal
Lydia Ayoade
Robin C. Fox
Production Company
Chicken Leg Ltd
Production Design
David Crank
Sales
x
Scenario
Richard Ayoade
Avi Korine
based on the novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sound Design
Adam Armitage
Andy Kennedy
Year of Production
2014
Website
Richard AYOADE (1977, UK) was born to a Nigerian father and a Norwegian mother and studied Law at Cambridge. He started his career as a comedian and co-wrote, acted in and directed TV series such as Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh and The IT Crowd. The Double is his second feature film.