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"Welles, here in his sixties, reveals two new sides to his cinema audience, the prankster and the editor." [movie review] Combustible Celluloid Jeffrey M. Anderson

"Gives Orson Welles a chance to explore trickery, fraud and illusion on the screen in imaginative ways" [movie review] Spirituality and Health Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

"Welles revels in the duplicity of his subject, reminding us time and time again that we can't trust the medium of film" [movie review] rec.arts.movies.reviews Shane Burridge

"An almost impossibly lively pastiche of images and ideas that never tires." [movie review] Filmjourney Doug Cummings

"This will surely be the DVD release of the year. Criterion has finally brought to DVD a wonderful transfer of Orson Welles' most playfully masterful film…" [movie review] TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) Rick Curnutte

"This may be the ultimate extension of Jean-Luc Godard�s approach to moviemaking." [dvd review] FilmStew.com Todd Gilchrist

"Thanks, Criterion, for keeping the film's mystique of fakery alive." [dvd review] Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez

"A minor documentary with a few good scenes." [movie review] Classic Film and Television Michael E. Grost

"One of Welles' most engaging — and slyly creative — works." [movie review] Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Ken Hanke

"a wonderfully fitting conclusion to Welles' career, a playful exploration of the mysteries of art, magic, and fraud, all themes that were central to his best films" [dvd review] Q Network Film Desk James Kendrick

"Mesmerizing meditation on truth, artifice, and art." [quick rating] Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Nell Minow

"I've never seen another film like it" [movie review] filmcritic.com Christopher Null

"Enough layers for a whole semester of postmodernism — and it has a sense of humor to boot." [quick rating] DVD Verdict Mike Pinsky

"After seeing this elusive film, I wonder how many pictures of the great artists in the museums are really by them and not by some forger." [movie review] Ozus' World Movie Reviews Dennis Schwartz

"A little gem, full of vintage Welles ruminations on the ephemeral nature of personal celebrity and the elusiveness of ultimate truth." [movie review] Low IQ Canadian Martin Scribbs

"Hardcore film lovers owe it to themselves to track down F for Fake; its charms and merits are quite real." [dvd review] Now Playing Magazine Brent Simon

"F for Fake is one of the more wistfully humorous of Welles�s wrestlings with reality." [movie review] Slant Magazine Joshua Vasquez

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Short summary A documentary about Elmyr de Hory (1905 - 1976), the greatest art forger of our time.
Summary Elmyr de Hory was called �The myth of our century� when he was revealed in 1968. He has probably made more than 1.000 fake paintings, primarily in the style of post-impressionists. The pictures were sold in America, Europe and Japan, and the total market value is estimated to be more than 100 million dollars. Many a gallery of good reputation may be in possession of a dubious Matisse or Modigliani. In addition to faking paintings, Elmyr also faked his own identity. The story of Elmyr de Hory lets us into a world where the limits between fiction and reality are erased.

Screenplay Johannes R�d and Knut W. Jorfald
D.O.P Nils Petter Lotherington
Editor Finn Krogvig, Jan Toreg
Producer Aage Aaberge
Production company Yellow Cottage as
Co-producer Norsk Film AS
Id� Film AB
Kinproduction OY
Country of origin Norway
Release date (international) 1998-04

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