Review: ‘Me and Orson Welles’ is perfectly delightful
By DFCS on Friday, 11th December 2009
Review: 'Me and Orson Welles' is perfectly delightful | 
From member Brandon Fibbs:
I watched most of Me and Orson Welles with my mouth agape. Not because the film is so good (it is, in fact, perfectly delightful), but because of the astonishing performance of an English actor you have never heard of. Christian McCay has only appeared in a handful of British films, but he was born to play Orson Welles. His performance is mesmerizing. It is as if Orson Welles himself rose from the grave, shed several hundred pounds and 60 years, and walked imperiously back on screen.
Me and Orson Welles is set in New York, circa 1937. Welles (McCay) and John Houseman (Eddie Marsan) have just formed the Mercury Theatre and have decided to stage “Julius Caesar,” set in contemporary fascist Italy, as their first production.
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