what a strange cat Orson Welles was. F For Fake isn't so much a documentary or even an essay as a hyperactive meditation on trickery and fakedom; Welles imposes an assaulting, visually and narratively convoluted approach on what begins a portrait of two master tricksters and eventually devolves into hammy expressionism. but aside from the obvious inflation of the film's running time (there's little more than an hour's worth of good material), the pretentious self-indulgence of it all does nothing to allay his brilliance...or vice versa. IMDb indicates this was his last proper directorial effort, but the bravado that was there from the start still bleeds from every frame decades later.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
orson welles' F FOR FAKE (1974)
what a strange cat Orson Welles was. F For Fake isn't so much a documentary or even an essay as a hyperactive meditation on trickery and fakedom; Welles imposes an assaulting, visually and narratively convoluted approach on what begins a portrait of two master tricksters and eventually devolves into hammy expressionism. but aside from the obvious inflation of the film's running time (there's little more than an hour's worth of good material), the pretentious self-indulgence of it all does nothing to allay his brilliance...or vice versa. IMDb indicates this was his last proper directorial effort, but the bravado that was there from the start still bleeds from every frame decades later.
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