Genre: Documentary
Review: “The Imposter” is a documentary with so many cinematic elements in it that you might as well call is a psychological thriller, were it not for the fact that the story is too implausible for it to have really happened. Because as a made-up scenario, you wouldn’t believe it.
Before watching this documentary, it’s best not to know too much. The only thing you need to know is that it’s about the disappearance of a 13-year-old-boy from San Antonio, Texas in 1994, and three years later in Spain someone turns up who claims to be him, even though he suddenly has brown eyes and dark hair. And now you possibly only know 2 % of how this thriller-documentary will play out.
Despite the fact that the film felt a bit slow at the halfway point, the desperation of the family of the missing Nicholas Barclay and the weirdness of the story, he has combined dramatic reconstructions with interviews with Nicholas’ family. And here director Bart Layton has chosen the atmosphere of a dark thriller rather than a documentary.
Like I stated before, the story is so crazy, you wouldn’t believe it in a fictional film. But it did really happen and that why this documentary has such an impact. The cleverest about the film, however, is that you are kept in the dark throughout. Probably no everyone will pull that off, as some people prefer to see cleat and rounded stories. I don’t, so I loved how it was told.
Rating: 3,5/ 5
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