Viola Lawrence music Heinz Riemheld star.
All film is documentary, is verite.
While the narrative of Welles' The Lady From Shanghai appears obscure at times, its failures are really the material of its success. You read that Welles went on a drunken safari on Errol Flyn's yacht, had to scrap most of the location footage as unusable. You read that the studio interfered, brought in its own editor, shot its own inserts. The reason this film has art is because you are forced back into its symbolic subtext in order to understand its logic. The courtroom scene is absurd, obeys its own protocol.