The Eyes of Orson Welles

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BBFC RatingThe Eyes of Orson Welles

Certificate12A
Year2018
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Mark Cousins
LanguageEnglish
CountryUK
Running Time1HR 55MINS
SeasonMain Programme

Filmmaker Mark Cousins (I Am Belfast) dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before – through his own eyes, sketched with his own hand, painted with his own brush.

Granted exclusive access to hundreds of private drawings and paintings by Orson Welles, this film brings vividly to life the passions, politics and power of this brilliant 20th-century showman, and explores how the genius of Welles still resonates today in the age of Trump, more than 30 years after his death.

As the title suggests, the iconoclastic Northern Irish documentarian Mark Cousins has chosen to focus on the way the late creative polymath saw things, literally so, not only in his films but in his voluminous but far less known paintings and sketches. Executive produced by Michael Moore.


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