F for Fake (1974)

Highly Recommended

France/Iran/West Germany

Feature Documentary

Original Title: ?: About Fakes

Director: Orson Welles

Writer: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar

Cinematographer: François Reichenbach

Composer: Michel Legrand

Featuring: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving

Welles’s final film is a documentary of and about fraud and fakery, taking a look at the art forger Elmyr de Hory, notorious biographer Clifford Irving, as well as at Welles himself, which proves to be a fun, playful, and absorbing look at the role of the artist in a capitalist society. Iain.Stott