El Father Plays Himself
20201h 45m7.0
Documentary
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- Italy
About
A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
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.
Where to watch
Details
- Director
- Mo Scarpelli
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Apr 25, 2020
- Studio
- Rake Films, Ardimages
Cast
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