Sightlines · a concept

le faussaire

the falsifier/counterfeiter as the genetic figure; a chain of metamorphoses.

On screen: a protagonist who forges/creates truth; serial shifting identity.

356 films in the collection register this concept · in the glossary

Deleuze’s own examples

DF for Fake1973

Across the collection

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler1922Nanook of the North1922Dishonored1931Citizen Kane1941The Lady Eve1941The Tale of the Fox1941To Be or Not to Be1942Detour1945Gilda1946Dark Passage1947The Lady from Shanghai1947Fort Apache1948Kind Hearts and Coronets1949The Third Man1949All About Eve1950La Ronde1950Rashomon1950Stage Fright1950Sunset Boulevard1950The Strange Ones1950Othello1951Singin' in the Rain1952Sudden Fear1952Diabolique195519841956Witness for the Prosecution1957The Magician1958Touch of Evil1958Vertigo1958Anatomy of a Murder1959Imitation of Life1959Some Like It Hot1959Suddenly, Last Summer1959Breakfast at Tiffany's1961Yojimbo1961Lawrence of Arabia1962Le Doulos1962Lolita1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance19628½1963Billy Liar1963Charade1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963Take It All1963A Fistful of Dollars1964Marnie1964Darling1965The Spy Who Came In from the Cold1965Alfie1966Andrei Rublev1966Daisies1966Seconds1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966Branded to Kill1967The Producers1968The Swimmer1968The Thomas Crown Affair1968Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970Performance1970The Beguiled1971The Decameron1971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Sleuth1972Paper Moon1973The Day of the Jackal1973The Sting1973The Wicker Man1973The Man Who Would Be King1975The Passenger1975Female Trouble1976The Tenant19763 Women1977High Anxiety1977Opening Night1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977The American Friend1977Hitler: A Film from Germany1978The Shout1978All That Jazz1979Being There1979Manhattan1979The Onion Field1979Kagemusha1980Absence of Malice1981Body Heat1981Mephisto1981The French Lieutenant's Woman1981Time Bandits1981The Draughtsman's Contract1982The Thing1982Tootsie1982Zelig1983Amadeus1984Body Double1984Choose Me1984City of Pirates1984The Element of Crime1984To Live and Die in L.A.1985Caravaggio1986Something Wild1986Angel Heart1987Broadcast News1987House of Games1987Beetlejuice1988Dangerous Liaisons1988The Adventures of Baron Munchausen1988For All Mankind1989Close-Up1990Europa Europa1990GoodFellas1990Miller's Crossing1990Misery1990The Grifters1990Total Recall1990Bugsy1991JFK1991Naked Lunch1991Paris Is Burning1991Prospero's Books1991Terminator 2: Judgment Day1991The Doors1991Basic Instinct1992Bram Stoker's Dracula1992Lessons of Darkness1992Malcolm X1992Man Bites Dog1992Orlando1992Reservoir Dogs1992Unforgiven1992In the Line of Fire1993True Romance1993Forrest Gump1994Satantango1994Three Colors: White1994Get Shorty1995Richard III1995Se7en1995The Usual Suspects1995To Die For1995Basquiat1996Deep Crimson1996Lone Star1996Mission: Impossible1996Primal Fear1996Swallowtail Butterfly1996Trainspotting1996When We Were Kings1996Chasing Amy1997Contact1997Donnie Brasco1997Face/Off1997Funny Games1997Gattaca1997Insomnia1997Life Is Beautiful1997Little Dieter Needs to Fly1997Lost Highway1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil1997Waiting for Guffman1997Dark City1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Gods and Monsters1998Run Lola Run1998Velvet Goldmine1998All About My Mother1999Being John Malkovich1999Boys Don't Cry1999Election1999Fight Club1999Following1999Galaxy Quest1999My Best Fiend1999The Talented Mr. Ripley1999The Thomas Crown Affair1999eXistenZ1999American Psycho2000High Fidelity2000Joint Security Area2000Memento2000Mission: Impossible II2000O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000Unbreakable2000Fat Girl2001Hedwig and the Angry Inch2001Ocean's Eleven2001Spy Game2001The Royal Tenenbaums200124 Hour Party People2002Adaptation.2002Catch Me If You Can2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Far from Heaven2002Hero2002Infernal Affairs2002Millennium Actress2002Minority Report2002Ripley's Game2002The Kid Stays in the Picture2002The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002Code 462003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Mystic River2003Oldboy2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003Runaway Jury2003Save the Green Planet!2003The Matrix Revolutions2003Zatoichi2003Birth2004Closer2004House of Flying Daggers2004Ocean's Twelve2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004The Merchant of Venice2004A History of Violence2005Capote2005Grizzly Man2005Lady Vengeance2005Lord of War2005The Squid and the Whale200512:08 East of Bucharest2006Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006Inland Empire2006Inside Man2006The Departed2006The Illusionist2006The Prestige2006Atonement2007I'm Not There2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007Body of Lies2008Extraordinary Stories2008Funny Games2008Mesrine: Killer Instinct2008Mesrine: Public Enemy #12008Synecdoche, New York2008Dogtooth2009Inglourious Basterds2009Moon2009Mother2009Star Trek2009Black Swan2010Carlos2010Certified Copy2010Green Zone2010Prince of Broadway2010Shutter Island2010Headhunters2011J. Edgar2011Scream 42011Argo2012Confession of Murder2012Django Unchained2012Life of Pi2012Like Someone in Love2012Prometheus2012The Act of Killing2012American Hustle2013Iron Man 32013New World2013Oblivion2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014Creep2014Enemy2014Gone Girl2014Nightcrawler2014Phoenix2014The World of Kanako2014Dheepan2015Ex Machina2015Spectre2015The Hateful Eight2015Deadpool2016The Handmaiden2016Toni Erdmann2016Alien: Covenant2017Atomic Blonde2017Blade Runner 20492017Darkest Hour2017Forgotten2017Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 22017I, Tonya2017Memoir of a Murderer2017Molly's Game2017The Death of Stalin2017The Greatest Showman2017The Lego Batman Movie2017BlacKkKlansman2018Never Look Away2018Shadow2018Sorry to Bother You2018The Favourite2018The Resistance Banker2018Vice2018Brexit: The Uncivil War2019La Flor2019Rocketman2019Spider-Man: Far From Home2019Us2019Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Dinner in America2020Possessor2020Promising Young Woman2020Saint Maud2020Summer of 852020Cruella2021Nightmare Alley2021The Last Duel2021The Power of the Dog2021The Worst Person in the World2021Titane2021Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022Don't Worry Darling2022Elvis2022Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022Incantation2022Moonage Daydream2022Operation Mincemeat2022The Outfit2022TÁR2022White Noise202212.12: The Day2023Saltburn2023Soulmate2023A Complete Unknown2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024Conclave2024Deadpool & Wolverine2024Dune: Part Two2024Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga2024Gladiator II2024Heretic2024Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes2024Late Night with the Devil2024Strange Darling2024The Count of Monte Cristo2024The Fall Guy2024After the Hunt2025Atropia2025Hamnet2025Mickey 172025Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning2025Nouvelle Vague2025Resurrection2025Romería2025Twinless2025Wicked: For Good2025Yes2025Zootopia 22025De Gaulle: Liberté2026Obsession2026Rose of Nevada2026Send Help2026