Body Double 22 Filming Locations

For Body Double 22, Brice Dellsperger starts with Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, ten years after its initial release. Once again he is working with Jean-Luc Verna, who plays all the parts. In contrast with his earlier films, limited to reprises of single scenes - the exceptions being BD X, which used the whole of Zulawski's That Most Important Thing: Love, and BD16, which included scenes from two different films - this new opus takes advantage of the opportunity to apply the same directing principles to several different scenes: doubles split off into female characters. The gender trouble the artist creates - his actor is systematically dressed as a woman, even when playing male parts - once again contaminates the remake exercise. Using a host of replayed scenes - the film lasts 35 minutes - Body Double 22 jumbles their order, reorganizing different sequences from Kubrick's last masterpiece around the original's key scene - Dr Harford's discovery of the secret ritual - which here recurs over and over. The splitting operations thus interfere with the film's linearity, dividing into different spaces the scenes re-enacted and shot in different parts of the same theatre: the dream narrative, the visit to the morgue, the naked woman in the bathroom, the visit to the dead patient's daughter, etc. The use of inlays even enables the overlaying of scenes within a single shot, that of the argument. In addition, the use of overdubbed sound heightens the general unease and helps distance the film from Kubrick's original.