The Imposter | Take This Waltz | The Girl | Doctor Who: Legacy | British Legends Of Stage And Screen
**The Imposter*![ext]()
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As with all the best true stories, this one offers a premise that you just couldn't make up – it would be considered too far fetched. After Texan teen Nicholas Barclay disappeared in 1994, his family slowly grew to accept they'd almost definitely never see him again, certainly not alive. But three years and four months later they received news that the boy had been located in Spain. What they found wasn't Nicholas but a completely different person, a confidence trickster called Frédéric Bourdin, who was seven years older and with different colour hair and looks from the person he was impersonating. You'd expect this sad story to end there, but there's more. A lot more. Rather than turn away such an obvious fraud, the Barclay family took Bourdin in. They had lost a loved one and spent years grieving, he had drifted through life unloved, both parties adapted to this lie seemingly without question. As the story unfolds, and it would be unfair to reveal more here, it becomes increasingly affecting and bizarre. First-time feature director Bart Layton employs the same kinds of techniques he employed on such TV fare as Banged Up Abroad: aided by Anne Nikitin's classy score, his decision to cut from talking heads and footage of actual events to dramatised sections blurs the lines between fact and fiction, much as Bourdin's incredible story does.
Blu-ray & DVD, Revolver
**Take This Waltz**
Michelle Williams plays a married woman whose head is turned by her handsome neighbour.
Blu-ray & DVD, StudioCanal
**The Girl**
Toby Jones' TV movie goes gut-to-gut with Anthony Hopkins' take on Hitchcock. Here Jones' Hitch harasses Tippi Hedren.
DVD, Acorn
**Doctor Who: Legacy**
Never completed or aired Tom Baker adventure, Shada, written by the great Douglas Adams.
DVD, 2Entertain
**British Legends Of Stage And Screen**
Nicely put together interview/profiles with some of our greatest theatrical stars.
DVD, Odeon Reported by guardian.co.uk 2 days ago.
**The Imposter*
*As with all the best true stories, this one offers a premise that you just couldn't make up – it would be considered too far fetched. After Texan teen Nicholas Barclay disappeared in 1994, his family slowly grew to accept they'd almost definitely never see him again, certainly not alive. But three years and four months later they received news that the boy had been located in Spain. What they found wasn't Nicholas but a completely different person, a confidence trickster called Frédéric Bourdin, who was seven years older and with different colour hair and looks from the person he was impersonating. You'd expect this sad story to end there, but there's more. A lot more. Rather than turn away such an obvious fraud, the Barclay family took Bourdin in. They had lost a loved one and spent years grieving, he had drifted through life unloved, both parties adapted to this lie seemingly without question. As the story unfolds, and it would be unfair to reveal more here, it becomes increasingly affecting and bizarre. First-time feature director Bart Layton employs the same kinds of techniques he employed on such TV fare as Banged Up Abroad: aided by Anne Nikitin's classy score, his decision to cut from talking heads and footage of actual events to dramatised sections blurs the lines between fact and fiction, much as Bourdin's incredible story does.
Blu-ray & DVD, Revolver
**Take This Waltz**
Michelle Williams plays a married woman whose head is turned by her handsome neighbour.
Blu-ray & DVD, StudioCanal
**The Girl**
Toby Jones' TV movie goes gut-to-gut with Anthony Hopkins' take on Hitchcock. Here Jones' Hitch harasses Tippi Hedren.
DVD, Acorn
**Doctor Who: Legacy**
Never completed or aired Tom Baker adventure, Shada, written by the great Douglas Adams.
DVD, 2Entertain
**British Legends Of Stage And Screen**
Nicely put together interview/profiles with some of our greatest theatrical stars.
DVD, Odeon Reported by guardian.co.uk 2 days ago.