El Father Plays Himself (movie)
- User score: 7
- Production country: Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela
- Producer: Mo Scarpelli
- Production companies: Rake Films, Ardimages, La Faena
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 4/25/2020
- Run time: 105 min.
Movie description
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.
