F FOR FAKE
1975, a film by Orson Welles
it's unlike anything I've ever seen... Orson Welles's last completed film provides an eccentric avant-garde study of reality, truth, and illusion as well as an interesting critique on the idea of expertise...
"Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles’s free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career—the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles embarks on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes—not the least of whom is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F for Fake is an inspired prank and a searching examination of the essential duplicity of cinema."
-criterionco.com
1 comment:
I'll tried not to watch it before Sunday.
The description sounds very interesting
and it's been on my queue for a while.
but I promise I won't watch it.
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