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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH AT 7:30PM
A magician is just a actor playing the part of a magician
Come spend the evening with art forger Elmyr de Hory, Citizen Kane, Howard Hughes and his hoax biographer Clifford Irving... and with Picasso, deceived by love and THAT WOMAN...
 
TIME OUT (LONDON) called it...
A triumphantly self-amused, self-aware reflection on the veracities of art and creativity, and the lies that sustain them... A labyrinth of paradoxes and ironies that comes off as the cinematic equivalent of an Escher painting.
BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM JOURNAL said...
What is seen in the film that is real is not as real as it appears. Most especially we can't trust Welles himself. He will lie to us and deceive us, if only to get at the heart of the film's main contention - that you cannot trust anyone, especially anyone who asserts his or her authority without any basis of truth.
 THE CRITERION COLLECTION notes that...
The key to Welles's fakery here is his audience's imagination and the active collaboration it performs - most often unknowingly - with his own designs, the kind of unconscious or semi-conscious complicity that magicians and actors both rely on.
Art is a lie that makes us recognize the truth
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