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.”
7.0/ 10 2 votes 2020-04-25 1h 45m 0 popularity
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: Mo Scarpelli
Jorge Thielen Armand
Self
Jorge Thielen Hedderich
Self
Rodrigo Michelangeli
Self
