Release Date
2020-04-25
Status
Released
Original Title
El Father como sí mismo
Runtime
1h 45m
Original Language
ES
Production Countries
Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela
Production Companies
Rake Films, Ardimages, La Faena Films
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.
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