…So the experts have a vested interest in insisting this is really a Rembrandt because we said it was a Rembrandt 20 years ago. Elmire, of course insists on that throughout the movie. He thinks the cream of the Jest is that most of his frauds have never…

…been hidden from the public all these years. Be that as it may, in f for fake, Clifford Irving plays Clifford Irving, Elmire plays elmire, Orson Welles plays Orson Welles, and the whole movie is presented as a documentary about two notorious fakers. Except…

…that elmire swindled them and insist that these things are real in spite of the fact that he's confessed to having done them. Elmire says very early in the film: there cannot be art forgers without art experts. If there was nobody to say this is a…