Orson Welles directs himself, Oja Kodar and Elmyr de Hory in this documentary about forgers and flim-flam.

6 parts -we hung out with these two infamous con men. 4 parts – look how hot my current bird is. This is easily the most fun Welles flick ever. A collage and kaleidoscope of incomplete footage and teasing narration, the editing is very experimental. Both art forger Elmyr de Hory and his bullshitting biographer Clifford Irving are top class characters but there’s not nearly enough definitive meat in the parties and interviews Welles has filmed. So he reassembles a distracted jigsaw, does a bit of close-up magic and lenses his new girlfriend in narrative glamour shots. It works. It is daft. And it is art.

Watched at the NFT Southbank!

Perfect Double Bill: Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010)

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