The Imposter (2012)
Directed by Bart Layton
In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
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Blending Cronenbergian Crash vibes with Bart Layton’s documentary The Imposter , Titane is intriguing—but unfortunately, it falls short when it comes to emotional engagement.
But most significantly, he interviews the man himself, 23-year-old Frederic Bourdin, who explains step by step how he fooled everyone he came across, picking up visual and verbal clues like Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in “Catch Me If You Can.”
Okay, take a breath and ponder the obvious: In the annals of forged identity flicks, this is a towering Everest, dwarfing the deceivers in the likes of Catch Me If You Can and F for Fake.