F for Fake playfully poses intriguing questions while proving that even Orson Welles' minor works contain their share of masterful moments. Read critic reviews
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Orson Welles' final film documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
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Rating: PG
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Genre: Documentary
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Original Language: English
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Director: Orson Welles
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Producer: Dominique Antoine
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Writer: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: Criterion Collection
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Production Co: Janus Film
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Sound Mix: Mono
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F for Fake is both an entertaining and serious look at art without being pretentious or cynical. Orson Welles is great as the host, the cast is colorful, and the editing is superb.
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This was the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in it. This is not really a documentary, maybe can be called that very loosely, because operates in several different genres and maybe can be described even as a film essay of the professional art forger, Elmyr de Hory's. The story seems like a recounting of this amazing man's career, but very soon becomes obvious that de Hory's story serves only as the backdrop for a fast-paced, thorough but meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of art! What is art? Many will attempt to give an answer, but at the end none of those would be satisfying! Especially when watching it, a viewer finds several narratives woven together throughout the film, including those of de Hory, Irving, Welles, Howard Hughes and Kodar. Irving's original role is to tell the story as de Hory's biographer, but his part grew unexpectedly - while French director François Reichenbach shot a documentary about de Hory and Irving before there were interesting moments for Welles, and after that they together shot additional footage with Reichenbach as a cinematographer. Why? Well, in the time between the shooting of Reichenbach's documentary and the finishing of Welles', it became known that Irving had perpetrated a hoax of his own, namely a fabricated "authorized biography" of Howard Hughes (the hoax was later fictionalized in The Hoax). In addition to the 85-minute film, in 1976 Welles also shot and edited a self-contained 9-minute short film as a "trailer", almost entirely composed of original material not found in the main film itself. Amazing theories, mostly proven, will shake a trust in the art "system of valuation"... but the art is no exception. This documentary just honestly shows us the world we live in and its values!
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A curious doc, but not a doc, a film about fakes told in a very bold way, but with Orson welles, here coming of superb and a fantastic watch, narrating, presenting and interacting throughout, delving into certain types of fakes seen in his lifetime, mainly focusing on a artist who was known as a forger and author on his tail, whom himself possibly a faker, and also delving into certain times of howard hughes and his dealings, the two interact nicely and welles direction and style fitting within, it has a charm and his powerful mischife voice adding plenty, he is a watch. a unconventional doc, using many methods to tell its story.
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A totally unique experience, master director/actor (etc.) Orson Welles creates his late masterpiece with his expose on trickery.
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