The Chameleon Movie Review
Friday, July 8th, 2011Title: The Chameleon Director: Jean-Paul Salome Starring: Marc-Andre Grondin, Ellen Barkin, Famke Janssen, Emilie de Ravin, Nick Stahl, Brian Geraghty, Tory Kittles, Nick Chinlund Amazing things happen every day, all the world over, but the perils of sticking too closely to chronological fact in the cinematic adaptation of what by most accounts is an interesting true story are amply demonstrated in The Chameleon, an emotionally opaque drama about a wayward European youngster who — with the help of a deeply dysfunctional family, each of whom perhaps has different reasons for wanting to believe – passes himself off as a missing Louisiana teen before finally being outed by federal investigators. A solidly sketched sense of place can’t elevate this torpid…














