F for Fake
Orson Welles
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Plot Summary
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.
Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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85%- Reviews Counted: 26
- Fresh: 22
- Rotten: 4
- Average Rating: 7.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A charming, witty meditation upon fakery, forgery, swindling and art, a movie that may itself be its own Exhibit A.
Fresh: Welcome to the philosophical fun house that is F for Fake, stuffed full of questions about the nature of art and authorship, illusion and reality, lies and truth.
Fresh: Alternately superficial and profound.
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