Inspired by the con artist ´Anna Delvey´ Cover Story by Susan Rigetti plays very well a game of smoking mirrors. There is so much smoke that one can hardly realize that from the first quarter onwards that´s just a well oiled play we are witnessing.Typical con artist tricks.
Lora Ricci is a naive wannabe fashion journalist who got a summer internship to ELLE. There she meets and is getting fascinated by one Cat Wolff, a socialite of Russian-Austrian origin, the daughter of a clean energy businessman.
Through fragments of diary, dialogues of FBI agents and email exchanges between ´Cat´ and her brother in Moscow, we can make ourselves an idea of where the story goes. But you should wait until the last line to realize what was all about.
Cover Story has a touch of mystery but as it relies on second hand accounts and lacking completely real time dialogues it may feels artificious. But all my critiques, including towards the Lora character, as reflected in her diary - who plays a substantial part in the narrative - although literarily legit, do not stand the ending.
Rating: 3.5 stars
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