F for Fake
Orson Welles' final film documents fraud and fakery through the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving, who made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse.
16 September 1943, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
13 March 1908, New York City, New York, USA
30 July 1939, Kingston, New York, USA
3 July 1921, Paris, France
15 May 1905, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
5 November 1930, New York City, New York, USA
1941, Dubrava kraj Zagreba, Croatia/Hrvatska
1 October 1928, Joniskis, Lithuania
22 October 1935, Crowborough, Sussex, England, UK
4 March 1916, Delmar, Delaware, USA
October 11, 2015
I enjoyed every dubious minute of this bit of hanky-panky.
October 11, 2015
A mischievous mash of mock-doc, magic show, lecture and comedy.
October 11, 2015
For all its nods, winks and witty asides, it's a richly personal work, picking over the questions every creative artist must eventually ask: Am I 'for real'? Does it matter? And what is all this work worth, anyway?
October 11, 2015
A buoyant, delightfully playful Orson Welles exposes the artifice of film in his 1975 head scratcher, F For Fake.
October 11, 2015
Welles stretches his material and his legend just about as thin as possible in this tedious treatise on truth and illusion.
October 11, 2015
The result is a curious, unsatisfactory pastiche of documentary tidbits acquired from Reichenbach and speculative filler supplied by Welles himself.
March 26, 2009
An intriguing, enjoyable look at illusion in general and his own, Clifford Irving's and De Houry's dealing with it in particular.
October 11, 2015
F for Fake is as grand, multitudinous, and original as Welles himself.
October 11, 2015
The last film to be completed by Orson Welles is also probably his most challenging. A tricksy combination of documentary, discourse and sleight of hand, F for Fake is as elusive as it is playful.
October 11, 2015
Like every good magic show, there's much more here than first meets the eye.
October 11, 2015
F For Fake is minor Welles, the master idly tuning his instrument while the concert seems never to start again. But it's engaging and fun, and it's astonishing how easily Welles spins a movie out of next to nothing.
October 11, 2015
If Citizen Kane is testament to a young man's genius then F For Fake is testament to a veteran's rebellious spirit and wicked sense of humour.
