Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

Faux et Usage de faux is a French drama film directed by Laurent Heynemann and released in 1990. Running about 97 minutes in French, the film draws inspiration from the famous Émile Ajar affair, the literary scandal in which a celebrated writer hid behind a fabricated identity, and builds its fiction around that real-life deception.

The cast features Jean-Claude Brialy and Philippe Morier-Genoud, alongside performers such as Caroline Silhol, Monique Chaumette and Gérald Laroche. The film stands as an example of French cinema's engagement with literature and public scandal.