Kuvaus:
Gary GraverSävellys:
Michel LegrandNäyttelijät:
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Richard Wilson, Paul Stewart, Gary Graver, Peter Bogdanovich, Laurence Harvey, Nina van Pallandt, Andrés Vicente Gómez (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles' 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 goes on a dizzying cinematic journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes-not the least of which is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, F for Fake is an inspired examination of the essential duplicity of cinema. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
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“This is a promise. For the next hour, everything you hear from us is really true and based on solid fact.” Placing extraordinary demands on the viewer’s attention, F for Fake is an incredibly concise essay on swindling and swindlers that, like Citizen Kane, is mainly a (indecipherable?) riddle for (in)credulous viewers (and an endearingly malicious game for the filmmakers). The form is neither fiction nor documentary, both of which are equally manipulable, but Welles’s ego holds F for Fake together. Crossing the boundary between reality and fiction doesn’t end with the self-references and casting of Oja Kodar, Welles’s offscreen muse at the time. There was even speculation that F for Fake was the director’s response to Pauline Kael’s article attributing most of the screenwriting work on Citizen Kane to Herman J. Mankiewicz. Whatever the real meaning behind the letter F, however big the hoax, Welles’s final completed project assumes active cooperation. Don’t let yourself be cheaply deceived. 80%
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