Derek Malcolm24 August 2012
Made during the final decade of his life, Orson Welles’s mischievous and philosophical documentary about forgery examines the evidence regarding a famously notorious case.
Presiding over the proceedings himself, Welles examines Clifford Irving’s possibly bogus biography of Elmyr de Hory, a forger of countless art masterpieces. It also examines Welles’s own hoaxes, and meditates on art and creativity too. Intriguingly off-beat if not major Welles.
Cert 12A, 85 mins
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