Possible Clues:

• Controls borders missing knock-off
• Top French film-maker joins motorway the wrong way -- dummy
• Check if leader's ignored art of impressionists
• Fake obstacle left out
• Mock student leaving bar
• Topless bar is fake
• Copy restriction? Not at first
• Mockery made of shortcoming when opener dismissed
• Version of totalitarianism LA star rejected as fake
• Mock student with no qualification? Quite the opposite!