F for Fake

1973
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F for Fake
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Title: F for Fake

Original Title: Vérités et mensonges

Year: 1973

Info

  • Country: France
  • Length: 89 Minutes (1 hour 29 min)
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Age rating: PG (Parental guidance)

Release Dates

  • UK: August 24 2012

Plot

How to describe a film so unlike any other ever made? In a nutshell... ? F for Fake opens with a couple of magic tricks, segues as though by sleight-of-hand into the story of master art-forger Elmyr de Hory and his relationship with biographer Clifford Irving (a sequence "remixed" by Welles with extant footage from François Reichenbach?s documentary work-in-progress, Elmyr), then hones in on Irving when word gets out that his purported biography of recluse-mogul Howard Hughes is a first-class hoax in its own right. Here the film erupts in all directions, as Welles contrasts the sprawl of ?70s Hollywood with the halcyon Tinseltown that produced Citizen Kane; contemplates the continent that provided him with an artistic refuge some 800 years after the anonymous construction of the cathedral at Chartres; and, lastly, recounts a meeting between that most un-anonymous of artists ? Pablo Picasso ? and Welles? companion Oja Kodar, which took place in her youth, and during which...... ? The nutshell here clamps shut; the film itself, however, opens up onto infinite space.

Director:

Orson WellesOrson Welles

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