The 2021 Cannes Film Festival will feature a restored version of the 1973 Orson Welles movie F for Fake.
Welles’ witty take on fakery and forgery was restored by Les Films de L’Astrophore and La Cinémathèque française in collaboration with Documentaire sur grand écran, the Cinémathèque suisse and the Audiovisual institute of Monaco, with the support of Hiventy and Neuflize OBC.
Restoration of both the image was undertaken by the Hiventy laboratory in France using the original negative and at L.E. Diapason Studio in Paris from the 35mm magnetic track.
In creating F for Fake, Welles reworked documentary material shot by of Francois Reichenbach on noted art forger Elmyr De Houry and added footage of his own. Welles probes the world populated by charlatans and experts. The film was made during a break in the filming of The Other Side of the Wind.
F for Fake will be screened as part of the Cannes Classic Series.
Other restored titles include David Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive; 1945’s I Know Where I’m Going! by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 1991 drama The Double Life Of Véronique; and Friendship’s Death by Peter Wollen.
The festival runs July 6-21.
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