F for Fake

Orson Welles directs and performs his opening, the film begun with French documentarian Francois Reichenbach for the BBC, and the briefest introduction of his elusive subjects Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving, in F For Fake, 1973.

Still many revelations short of his central topic, director, writer and performer Orson Welles zeroes in on the Spanish island of Ibiza, beginning to explain the relationship between art forger Elmyr de Hory and presumptive journalist Clifford Irving, in F For Fake, 1973.

Prurient and fascinating, music by Michel Legrand, Orson Welles and his cameras committing mischief in Paris, entirely a digression from the broader subject of art and forgery, with an appearance by Laurence Harvey, in the high-brow documentary F For Fake, 1973.