Friday, March 8, 2013

The Imposter - 2011 - 4 Stars

Subject:  An adult in Spain poses as a missing child from Texas
Director:  Bart Layton

The Imposter features at least one Errol Morris moment - I'm defining an Errol Morris moment as a point at which you have been watching utter insanity unfold on screen for a good long while, and then things get exponentially crazier.  As such, I can overlook the fact that it seems to be a made-for-TV documentary that got dropped into a theater release - an alternate title for the film could be The Establishing Shot (and indeed, its actual title is pretty bad).  Regardless, it pulls off something I'm not sure I've seen a documentary film attempt.  A must-see.




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