Acclaimed writer and director Sonia Kronlund follows up her amazing Cannes-nominated The Prince of Nothingwood with the story of a seductive conman, The Man With A Thousand Faces, that received its world premiere at this year’s Raindance Film Festival.
He goes by the names of Alexandre, Ricardo, or Daniel. He calls himself a surgeon or an engineer, Argentinian or Brazilian. He lives with four women at the same time, adapting his story and even his personality traits to each one. A first-person investigation, with the help of a private detective, into an imposter with a thousand imaginary lives.
In the film, Kronlund deftly peels back the layers of womanising fraudster Ricardo, revealing his cruel guile, dexterous deceit, and horrifying lack of compassion, despite passing himself off as cultured, kind, and romantic, and variously an engineer, a heroic surgeon or an army doctor. As well as interviewing some of the women he fooled, Kronlund hunts Ricardo down, leading to a nerve-wracking and revealing confrontation… and revenge, or sorts, for his victims.
Very much in the same vein as the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler and BAFTA-winning conman classic The Imposter, The Man With A Thousand Faces is a timely and cautionary look at the perils of taking things at face value in a world where nothing is quite what it first appears.
The Man With A Thousand Faces will be in selected UK cinemas from the 22nd of November.
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