The Imposter
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Årets nagelbitare, en thriller direkt ur verkliga livet! The Imposter har blivit vida hyllad världen över för sin fängslande berättarteknik och surrealistiska stil. Det här är ett mysterium du inte vill gå miste om. Men vad är egentligen verklighet och vad är fiktion? Vi reder ut begreppen tillsammans med Lajos Varhegyi efter filmen.
DJ: En av stans finaste filmmakare, Maciej Kalymon, finns vid skivspelarna för att vrida upp spänningen lite extra innan filmen.
GÄST: Lajos Varhegyi är dokumentärfilmare och undervisar filmstudenter i praktisk film & dokumentärt berättande på Malmö Högskola. Efter filmen håller vi ett samtal om den ibland inte så skarpa gränsen mellan fiktion och dokumentär.
About the film:
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 ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas.
Though the family accepts him, suspicion surrounds the person who claims to be Nicholas. How could the Barclay’s blonde, blue-eyed son have returned with darker skin and eyes? How could his personality and even accent have changed so profoundly? Why does the family not seem to notice the glaring differences? And if this person who has arrived in Texas isn’t the Barclay’s missing child . . . who on earth is he? And what really happened to Nicholas?
Director Bart Layton fuses confessional interviews, strikingly creative re-enactments 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.
Visningen presenteras i samarbete med Folkuniversitetet, Malmö Kulturstöd, Film i Skåne, SVT, SFI och Folkets Bio.
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