Interesting review from the LA Times here , the most interesting part being right at the end comparing it in part to Orson Welles last film 'F for Fake', here are some snippets from Wikipedia discussing this film to get you thinking:
'struggling artist who turned to forgery out of desperation, only to see the greater share of the profits from his deceptions go to doubly unscrupulous art dealers.'
'There has not always been agreement among commentators over just how that production unfolded, but the now-accepted story[1] is that the director François Reichenbach shot a documentary about de Hory and Irving before giving his footage to Welles, who then shot additional footage with Reichenbach as his cinematographer.'
'it became known that Irving had perpetrated a hoax of his own, namely a fabricated "authorized biography" of Howard Hughes (the hoax was later fictionalized in The Hoax). This discovery prompted the shooting of still more footage'
'F for Fake is often judged as a masterpiece of the art of editing'
full entry here
okay so I'm not saying Banksy saw this film and said i know what i'll do, but it does give food for thought? With the recent removal of a street piece by 'unscrupulous art dealers', additional footage added to real footage (come on you know everything you were watching wasn't quite as it seemed?), clever editing, hoaxing a biography of 'someone', it makes you wonder, just a little
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