This intriguing but slightly manipulative documentary guides us through the stranger-than-fiction story of a bestselling Holocaust memoirist who was revealed, by her own former publisher, to be a fantasist and a fraud. A puzzle box of a structure reveals fresh angles to the story with each new contributor, but the woman at its core – the discredited author Misha Defonseca – remains silent and unaccountable, to the film’s detriment.
