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El Father Plays Himself (2020)
Directed by Mo Scarpelli
“A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.”
Documentary · 1h 45m
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.
Cast
Jorge Thielen Armand
Rodrigo Michelangeli
Crew
- Director
- Mo Scarpelli
- Editor
- Juan Soto Taborda
- Producer
- Rodrigo Michelangeli, Manon Ardisson
Details
- Original title
- El Father como sí mismo
- Release date
- 2020-04-25
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela
- Production
- Rake Films, Ardimages, La Faena Films