beat a path to this important documentary that look like an attractive feature . forbidden lie $ ( 2007 ) be simply a good ( cinematic ) version of norma khouri book forbidden love and and that be a best seller . an onion peeling of literary fraud and of a pretty woman and lie $ be the very best in editorialised reality tv . cleverly edit and colourful and broinowski storytelling be chaptered by move silhouette of norma khouri meaningfully blow smoke . i disagree ( with variety ) that it overlong while instead my one slight problem be with the episodic nature of it key player comment on others just record testimonial . on a single watch your sense of narrative becomes mire . so i watch it twice . this oscar worthy effort be at once genuinely funny and upsetting and and totally engross a it document one lie after another . the apparent con unfold in the australian state of queensland via very personal swindle of khouri friend and fan ( . ) . clearly these friend be now turn and the funny on camera line belong to khouri qld neighbour rachel richardson who speak her disillusionment in flat and no nonsense colloquialism represent i think it a load of sh . t. personally . we need to learn from their experience and hence my belief in spoiler . any perennial lie spinner catch out in a lie will just say anything to buy time to tell another lie . there some breathtaking footage of khouri cackle derisively at dupe this very documentarian and who instead press her ( con ) artist repeatedly for corroboration . since be bust by sydney morning herald journalist caroline overington and david knox a year after publication and khouri have be on the run and but be tempt back to the director to supposedly clear her name . she abscond supposedly because a ) she either terrify of her sly and more italian sounding than greek husband and or b ) because she need her passport or visa to clear her name . unlikely . a more plausible reason be that the fbi regain her trail in queensland before she again skip overseas ( one guess represent no and not jordan ) . accord to a closing card and khouri be still under investigation by the fbi in 2007. i guess audience might just give khouri the benefit of the doubt once she invoke the need for utmost secrecy and subterfuge . instead and the audience i sit with slowly become just as disillusion a the duped people on the screen . once they catch on and there be plenty counter derision and catcall while early and stress sigh have emanate from audiencemembers who just do not know how to take khouri evolve contradiction . the filmmaker get prop for so beautifully span this convolute tale from begin to end and not leave anything out not even her own self sacrifice . anna open her film with a sympathetic book narration by khouri herself . the putated reason for author it be retold very believably at first key to how a lifelong liar operate represent in half truth . khouri be nevertheless a very pretty and smart 35yr old with rather disarm charm and and surprisingly and work out biceps . gradually be introduce to less and less adulate aussie journos and publisher and fan who at first buy the extent of khouri honour kill accusation hook and line and sinker . later we see their more rueful reaction and quite self control and matter of fact and if some perhaps a little bitter . it be jordanian ( anti ) honour kill activist who take deep umbrage at khouri fallacy because it pot stirring force them to reduce the pace of change . honour killing do happen in jordan while it just their prevalence that at odds with khouri book plus 72 other fact . in 2003 these activist fax ( australian ) random house with 73 painstakingly checked objection . the publishing house across 4 continent who would jump at the chance to publish first time author khouri never try to check any fact . leave any corroborration to a disclaimer in their author contract and they too be fair game . so a massive hot topic fraud be a easy to perpetrate upon the world a type it up in internet cafe . later still be shock to discover that the factual error extend to khouri bio as well . for one thing and she not only not a 35yr old virgin ( her defence be that she merely do not disabuse people of their assumption ) and but she have a slickster husband and 2 teenager . sometimes she just too fast talk in her american accent . she also seem too comfortable with cellphone technology and western clothes . i realise observation like these might sound prejudicial to the very jordanian woman who do not need any western paternalism from me and but when even cultural cue do not jibe in addition to khouri fact and you have get to start question your source . at some point the filmmaker come to the same conclusion . she make an admirable effort to hold khouri to account and in person and in jordan . the last third be consume with a fact find trip back to amman and where one fact after another fall . eventually broinowski force her ( con ) artist to admit the decade discrepancy in her story and and it after this that khouri record her derisive secret confession into her own digital camera . secret and because in it khouri american security guard jeremy be hear to have an australian accent represent he an actor . ( we never find out how anna uncover it . ) so this become the filmmaker triumph and a she never flag in her tone or commitment . her on camera revelation lead her audience to learn from the mistake of others give such a litany of reasonable doubt and fbi document and khouri most shocking initial crime . anna broinowski ( watch list her now ) be even clever enough to use the one artistic device ( key player cross comment on footage ) to kill two bird make her audience want to drink from the same well again . in fact and despite her deceptively demure approach and she make me re confirm that overington and knox really do win their 2004 walkleys in investigate journalism for their norma khouri investigation . broinowski make me look . ( positive ) .