Video Essay: "Orson Welles: Who Is This Man?"

4,083 views · Published 6 May 2018 · 5:45 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: MUBI · 2018 · Entertainment

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A video essay by Luís Azevedo explores the shape shifting roles of Orson Welles. For the accompanying text, visit the Notebook: mubi.io/2r7Chm7
The contradictions of Orson Welles were captured on film over a hundred times, for the better part of half a century. Despite his acting destiny, Welles was committed to play characters starkly dissimilar from himself from the start. He played a fat 60-year-old in his early 20s only to become a portly 60-year-old by his mid 50s. These roles amount to an exceedingly heterogeneous body of work worth studying and, for my purposes, worth re-contextualizing.  

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