Picturehouse Entertainment and Revolver Entertainment have released a brand new trailer for Bart Layton's documentary film The Imposter (2012). Produced by Dimitri Doganis and executive produced by Oscar winner Simon Chinn (Man on Wire), The Imposter will open in theaters across the UK on August 24th.
A gripping thriller straight out of real life, The Imposter is an original film experience that walks the razor's edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery. The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance – that of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling kidnap ordeal. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas.
Director Bart Layton fuses confessional interviews and suspenseful storytelling into a film that asks the audience to play detective – as they ferret out the blurred evidence between a family who seems desperate to believe, a private investigator obsessed with resolution and a lonely thief whose only loot is human identities. Yet, just when it seems the puzzle of Nicholas Barclay has come together, another corkscrew twist turns everything upside down – and draws the audience deeper into The Imposter's lacerating questions about truth, perception and why people are so tempted to pretend, to fib and, most of all, to fool ourselves.
