"An unnerving tale, immaculately told" Total Film
"A mesmerising, path-breaking tour de force" The Telegraph
"A powerful film about lies and deception" The Guardian
It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain.
Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges the shocking story of his kidnap. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems.
Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.
Like his canny subject, gifted filmmaker Bart Layton pulls off an astonishing coup. Buoyed by eye-catching dramatizations and an enthralling structure that crisscrosses time and place, The Imposter unfolds as a gripping thriller that leaves us dizzy, yet certain that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.
Available for Non-Theatrical screenings at film societies, film clubs and pop-ups just four weeks after release. Theatrical bookings for cinemas should go through Picturehouse Entertainment / Revolver.