It's All True

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Skylar M 04/30/2023 It was a beautiful film! I felt my heart beat and fill up through the movie! I never expected this movie to talk about history, but it definitely was needed given the current climate of the world. See more 01/20/2021 Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Catherine Benamou and the late Richard Wilson are to be commended for their work. The footage shot by Orson Welles in 1942 is gorgeous and the story behind the movie is engaging. See more 11/15/2013 (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] See more 05/03/2012 It is a master piece, and a huge lesson about Brazil's culture. I am astonished with Orson's sight, and how he fell in love with Brazilians. It is impressive! Besides the fact that it is *still* all true. Nothing really changed. See more 01/12/2012 Interesting look at a little known Orson Welles project involving the capturing of footage of life in South America. Probably works a little better if they just released the footage and scrapped the documentary portion. See more 07/12/2010 This film offers a look into the undoing of Welles' goodwill South America film called it's All True. With interviews from cast, crew, and even Orson Welles himself, we get to hear exactly what went wrong with It's All True (and what it did to Welles' career.) Inter-cut with these fascinating interviews is actual footage of the unfinished sequences from the original project; black and white for what was to be the first third of the film (My Friend Bonito) and later technicolor footage for the second part of the unfinished project. The Best part about this semi-documentary semi-Welles film is, however, that it contains the entire last third of the original film (Four Men on a Raft.) This footage was shot when the budget had significantly dropped and Welles had nothing but a single cameraman, no sound equipment and a few dozen actors who had never even seen a movie before. Let me tell you, this footage was simply inspiring. This was film making in it's simplest and barest form, and really demonstrates what the medium is capable of achieving. The story rides on the use of clever cinematography and the beautiful performances Welles somehow drew from these nonprofessionals; and with the exception of one or two titles at the bottom of the screen to establish a new location, the film doesn't even use inter-titles as a way of conveying dialogue. We see character's mouths moving, but we understand what they are saying by the emotion they convey whilst saying it. Welles truly made the best out of a bad situation with Four Men on a Raft, and this third of his unfinished project (to be called It's All True) is probably the most expertly told story in motion picture history. I most also say, that it contains some of the most beautiful cinematography I've ever seen (the funeral procession especially.) In short, the documentary part of this film is extremely interesting if you're a Welles fan, and is put together quite well. The portion of the Orson Welles film (Four Men On a Raft, and what there is of the other two segments) are absolutely perfect and must be watched by all who value this medium. See more Read all reviews

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