bamcinemaFest: The Imposter

Part of BAMcinemaFest

Sun, Jun 24 at 7pm
Q&A with Bart Layton

NY PREMIERE

Director: Bart Layton
Executive Producer: John Battsek, Simon Chinn, Molly Thompson, Katherine Butler, Bob DeBitetto 
Producer: Dimitri Doganis, Poppy Dixon, Vanessa Tovell 
Cinematographer: Erik Alexander Wilson, Lynda Hall
Editor: Andrew Hulme

(2012) 95min

This gripping true-crime thriller tells the unbelievable story of Frédéric Bourdin (the subject of David Grann’s fascinating 2008 New Yorker profile), a French-Algerian man who posed as Nicholas Barclay, a child who had gone missing from his home in San Antonio, TX, three years earlier. Returned to his overjoyed family, he relays haunting stories of imprisonment and abuse, but no one seems to notice the glaring differences in his appearance and behavior. Bolstered by candid interviews and atmospheric reenactments, The Imposter is a transfixing, layered mystery that becomes increasingly unsettling as it unfolds.