So, my dude starts with a disclaimer. Something to the lines of, “This movie is about tricks, fraud, and lies. Every movie is in part a lie. Except for all of this, this is true real facts.” Now, the guy who tells us this is a magician. So even without the title or description, I think that sets the tone pretty well.
So, I’mma be real honest here. I can’t write a good reflection on this, because this movie was confusing and my thoughts are tv static. It’s a movie about fakers, who, a good portion of what we think we know about them could very well be a lie, but we believe it to be the truth.
First of all, Ibiza. Ibiza seems like a fun place to vacation for like, a week, and say that it was nice and you enjoyed your time there, but you’re purposely blocking out the experiences you had with the people there.
Elmyr de Hory is an interesting man, if not a bit eccentric. He couldn’t achieve fame with his own paintings, so he turned to forgery, and became quite famous for it. The things the movie focused on the most were Modiglianis and Picassos.
One kinda quote kinda paraphrase from the movie I jotted down has very little to do with the actual contents of the film is thus: “France was now suffering from August. The time when an invader could take the country by telephone, if they could get anyone to answer it.”
The narrator then tells of how a lovely woman named Oja Kodar vacationed in the same village in France that Picasso lived in. He was so entranced by her that he created 22 different paintings of her; All of which she took back home with her. He later found them in a museum, then found out they were forgeries. Oja then took him to see her grandfather, who forged them. At the end of a long conversation, Picasso demands his paintings back, but her Granddad says that that’s not possible, as he burned them.
He then says that he only promised to tell the truth for an hour, and that hour has passed. “For the last 17 minutes, I’ve been lying my head off.” The entire thing with Oja and Picasso was fake- gotcha! I guess.