Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Germany, Iran
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
- artist
- manipulation
- illusion
- deception
- ibiza
- essay film
- forgery
- forger
- trickery
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Laurence Harvey — Self
- Edith Irving — Self
- David Walsh — Self
- Paul Stewart — Self
- Richard Wilson — Self
- Joseph Cotten — Self
- Howard Hughes — Self (archive footage)
- Richard Drewett — Self
- Alexander Welles — Self
- Gary Graver — Self
- Andrés Vicente Gómez — Self
- Directed
- François Reichenbach, Orson Welles
- Written
- Orson Welles, François Reichenbach
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 376 ratings
- Studio
- SACI, Les Films de l'Astrophore, Janus Film und Fernsehen
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
