F for Fake
Orson Welles' last major production is a "film essay" (not quite a documentary) about four people: Elmyr de Hory, a professional art forger; Clifford Irving, a biographer of de Hory; Oja Kodar, who claims that Picasso painted 22 canvases of her that no one has ever seen; and Welles himself, who discusses art and fakery and his days of creating havoc with his infamous "War of the Worlds " broadcast.
This movie is basically 85 minutes of Orson Welles having fun. He talks about the things that he finds fascinating: art, fakery, deceit, and magic. It's very enjoyable, and the editting makes it very fun, and it's also very profound at times. There are a lot of interesting stories that all relate to lies of some kind, and in the end the message is that we can't always trust art, we can only enjoy it. |
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