In my first Netflix recommendation, I told you to watch the films Mesrine Parts 1&2 on Netflix instant streaming. I hope you enjoyed “The French Scarface” and are ready for my next instant streaming pick.
This Netflix pick is a documentary that makes good use of recreated scenes to tell it’s bizarre true story. The documentary is titled The Imposter. I first heard about it through a film study class and it is one of the strangest films I have ever encountered. Not strange in the sense that I didn’t know what’s going on because it was artsy-fartsy or anything like that, but strange in the sense that it is so hard to believe that this story actually happened. It is about a 26 year old French guy named Frederic Bourdin who takes on the identity of a missing San Antonio teenager because, as he puts it in the beginning of the film, “for as long as I could remember… I wanted to be someone else.” He doesn’t look like the missing boy or sound like him, but because the boy had been missing for a couple of years, the family takes him in and everyone believes that he is their missing boy. That is all I will give you. Do not go on Wikipedia and research the film. I know me telling you not to makes you want to do it, but it is better to go into the film with only the information I have given you. If you need any more coaxing, the documentary got a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Watch it on your next Netflix night.