2020
7.0 (2 votes)
1h 45m
Official Website
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Rake Films
Ardimages
La Faena
Ardimages
La Faena
El Father Plays Himself (El Father como sí mismo)
A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Rodrigo Michelangeli, Manon Ardisson
Director: Mo Scarpelli
Top Cast
Videos
EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF // trailer
