El Father Plays Himself

El Father Plays Himself

"A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself."
  • 2020
  • 1 hr 45 min
  •  7  (2)
  •   Released

A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.

El Father Plays Himself
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A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
  • Release Date
    2020
  • Runtime
    1 hr 45 min
  • Language
    es
  • Rating
    7  (2)