El Father Plays Himself

El Father Plays Himself (2020)

A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.

TMDb

7.0

25/04/2020 • 1h 45m
original-title

El Father Plays Himself

status

Released

production-companies

Rake Films

Ardimages

La Faena

original-language

Spanish

budget

-

revenue

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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.

director
production-countries

Italy

United Kingdom

United States of America

Venezuela

spoken-languages

Spanish

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