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The Imposter (2012)

Directed by Bart Layton · Cinematography by Lynda Hall, Erik Wilson

R99 min63 frames

DocumentaryMysteryCrime

There are two sides to every lie.

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What is The Imposter about?

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 thousands of miles away 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.

The Imposter is a 2012 documentary film about the 1997 case of a French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who pretended to be Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an American boy who had disappeared in Texas at the age of 13 in 1994. The film was directed by Bart Layton. It mainly includes interviews with Bourdin but also with members of Barclay's family, as well as archive television news footage and reenacted dramatic sequences.

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Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of The Imposter leans on close-ups (33% of the sample) and establishing shots (25%). Cinematographer Lynda Hall keeps 49% of it in soft, low-key light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 60% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Imposter (2012) are #2f312f, #50534e, #0e1312, #152d2f, #334b51, #75756e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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