F for Fake (1972)

What is the value of art and who decides what something is worth? Those are questions Exit Through the Gift Shop posed last year. These questions are not new however as Orson Welles (who directed Citizen Kane) asked these same questions in this 1972 documentary.
He looks at the subject differently though as he chooses to focus on a master forger and a con man. Welles, who also shows up several times, tries to make those watching to think about what’s real and what’s fake. Continue reading