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Posted - 12/06/2012 : 14:49:00 Actors don't usually get to appear in a film with the real-life person whom they're playing. As Fr�d�ric Bourdin, Adam O'Brian does an excellent job of convincing us he's the French guy who pulled the wool over many Texan eyes.
It's a real-life tale well documented in fully accesible news reports of the late 1990s. Nutshell: mixed-race Parisian Bourdin, mid-to-late 20s, pulls on the identity of Nick Barclay, a missing Texas kid seven years his junior.
Some of the unlikely eyes that Bourdin deceived belonged to his older sister, a private dick, a shrink, his own mother, and - for a while - the FBI.
Now, Nick was tall for his age, blonde, blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and spoke with a Texas drawl.
Con-man Bourdin was swarthy, brown-eyed, and short. He speaks with an unmistakeable French accent.
Director Bart Layton presents this strange story via a series of interviews with the Barclays and with Bourdin himself. He handles the material so deftly that it rearranges itself from a potentially prurient tabloid piece to a thoughtful examination of the essence of identity and human connection.
This fascinating film ain't gonna play your average multi-plex, but if you do get a chance to watch it ... do!
