El Father Plays Himself (2020)

El Father Plays Himself

2020 | 105 minutes | 7.0 ★ (2)

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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.
Release Date
25 April 2020
DirectingMo Scarpelli
Budget
$0.00
Revenue
$0.00
Stars
Jorge Thielen Armand Jorge Thielen Hedderich Rodrigo Michelangeli

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