El Father Plays Himself
Original title: El Father como sí mismo
“A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.”
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.
Top-billed cast
- RRodrigo Michelangeli
- JJorge Thielen Armand
- JJorge Thielen Hedderich
Crew
- Director
- Mo Scarpelli
- Producers
- Rodrigo Michelangeli, Manon Ardisson
- Production
- Rake Films, Ardimages, La Faena
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Who directed El Father Plays Himself?
El Father Plays Himself was directed by Mo Scarpelli.
When was El Father Plays Himself released?
El Father Plays Himself was released in 2020.
