F For Fake (1974)

F FOR FAKE  (1974)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Orson Welles
Layers and layers of fakery in the art world, unraveled and spun into more fakery by Orson Welles. Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, Pablo Picasso, Oja Kodar (Welles' mistress) and Welles himself are among those involved, but the movie keeps circling back to a forger named Elmyr de Hory, who might be the most gifted and prodigious fake of them all. How much is true? Hell, I don't know. Welles was clearly amused, though. It's his last completed feature-length film, and a precursor in some ways to the Banksy documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop". Watch it on a double feature with Alan Rudolph's "The Moderns". That could be fun.