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03/26/09
It's All True (1993)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:16
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: A compendium of previously lost footage from Orson Welles' foray into Brazil during WWII. "It's All True" was to be another Welles masterpiece, but it was left unfinished. A look into the politics... [More]
Director: Orson Welles, Richard Wilson
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Reviews for It's All True
Top CriticIt's an amazing film for how it shows the Hollywood studio system couldn't tolerate creative artists.
04/06/08
Even in its redundancy, it is nevertheless fascinating.
04/06/07
Welles had intended to narrate the section himself, but the writers and directors of this documentary have wisely opted not to second-guess Welles, simply presenting the material as it stands and adding music and sound effects.
04/06/07
Top CriticWhat little there was (some Rio carnival footage, scenes from the fishing story Four Men on a Raft) looked stunning. In this documentary, happily, there's much more to show.
02/09/06
No review available.
08/17/05
Is this really a 'lost masterpiece'? I doubt it, but it's still and important missing piece of Welles' filmography.
06/08/05
If only a documentary like this one existed for every unfinished Welles film.
01/15/05
...the film at once seems like a visually dynamic conflation of a Robert Flaherty film and a proto-neorealist fable comprised of photogenic locals and working class heroics.
12/10/04
It's definitely all true, but it's not all that interesting.
12/05/04
It’s All True is an essential piece in the Welles puzzle.
12/05/04
No review available.
08/05/04
No review available.
03/24/04
No review available.
11/13/03
No review available.
07/29/03
This documentary is a long, seductive footnote to a cinema legend.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
11/22/02
The late Welles obviously had nothing to do with this new project. But you can feel his ambitious, quixotic intentions lurking in there somewhere.
01/01/00
Top CriticA short, rather unsatisfying film about Welles's misadventures in Latin America at the start of World War II.
01/01/00
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