F for Fake ( Vérités et mensonges )

F for Fake (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Vérités et mensonges
DVD Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

DVD Origin:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Iran ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Orson Welles

Written By:
Orson Welles

Actors:
Orson Welles .. Himself
Oja Kodar ..... The Girl
Joseph Cotten .. Special Participant
François Reichenbach ..... Special Participant
Richard Wilson .. Special Participant
Paul Stewart .. Special Participant
Alexander Welles ..... Special Participant (as Sasa Devcic)
Gary Graver ..... Special Participant
Andrés Vicente Gómez ..... Special Participant (as Andres Vincente Gomez)
Julio Palinkas ..... Special Participant
Christian Odasso ..... Special Participant
Françoise Widhoff ..... Special Participant (as Françoise Widoff)
Peter Bogdanovich .. Special Participant (voice)
William Alland ..... Special Participant (voice)

Synopsis:

The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than an example of cinematic free association on the topic of trickery. Much of the film is in fact drawn from other sources, most notably an unfinished documentary by Francois Reichenbach on the notorious Elmyr de Hory, whose extremely skillful forgeries of famous paintings caused scandals amongst art collectors and experts. In an additional bit of irony, de Hory's interviewer is author Clifford Irving, who became infamous due to a forgery of his own: a falsified autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles openly reedits and manipulates this footage, using it as a spine for his own commentary, arguing that there is an extremely close relationship between art and lying, and citing instances from his own career to prove the point. Through a combination of documentary and staged footage, Welles attempts to illustrate the artifice behind all filmmaking, even that of a supposedly non-fiction variety. F for Fake is inconsistent almost by its very nature, and certainly not comparable to Welles' earlier classics, but its free-wheeling, prankster spirit makes for an enjoyable curiosity.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 October, 2006.

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