El Father Plays Himself
Score: 7.0
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2020-04-25
Streaming Services NL (by JustWatch): GuideDoc, True Story, DocAlliance Films
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.
Jorge Thielen Armand
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