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.
Released
2020
1h 45min
2 votes
Documentary
Synopsis
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.
Détails techniques
Titre original
El Father como sí mismo
Langue originale
ES
Langues parlées
Spanish
Site officiel
Production
Compagnies de production
Rake Films
Ardimages
La Faena
Pays de production
Italy
United Kingdom
United States of America
Venezuela
