Film about chilling S.A. case a hit at Sundance

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Film about chilling S.A. case a hit at Sundance

Posted on 01/24/2012 by Jeanne Jakle
In honor of today’s Oscar nominations, I’m sharing some exciting S.A. movie news out of Sundance:

A thriller of a documentary film, which tells the true story of a con artist from France who impersonated a missing teenage boy in San Antonio, has been receiving strong buzz and glowing reviews.
Charlie Parker, an S.A. private investigator, is particularly excited about “The Imposter” (seen in Sundance movie poster above). And no wonder: He’s interviewed in the movie as the man who was instrumental in cracking the case. It tells the story of Frederic Bourdin, who, hearing of an unsolved case of an S.A. teen who had been missing since 1994, decided to assume his identity three years later so he could avoid jail.

Though he was in his early 20s at the time and had dark hair and brown eyes, Bourdin (seen at right in a photo from New Yorker story, “The Chameleon”) managed to impersonate the blond-haired, blue-eyed Nicholas Barclay, who would have been 16 at the time. His con worked well enough that the family of the boy accepted Bourdin into their homes for many months. (more...)