DOCSBARCELONA - International Documentary Film Festival

A press correspondent from Girona is captivated by the incredible story of Frédéric Bourdin, “The Chameleon”, a 31-yar-old wanderer and fraudster obsessed with assuming the identities of missing children, in order to be admitted to homeless children’s shelters. Boudin, for whom police files had been opened all around Europe, showed up in the mass media when he was sentenced to 6 years in prison for having impersonated the missing child of a North American family for 4 months’ time. So began the enthralling research task of the journalist essential journalistic revelations that open up the world of this tormented and elusive character. This, Frédéric B. is a totally factual documentary with a cine noir feel. Starting in much the same way as François Truffaut’s film The 400 Blows, with a boy in school lying about his mother’s death, the film threatens to end like Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou, with the main character wrapped in dynamite and about to blow himself up.