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El Father Plays Himself(2020)
Status: Released
Date: 2020-04-25
70%
2 Votes
Time: 1h 45m
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.
Languages: Spanish.
Countries:
Italy,
United Kingdom,
United States of America,
Venezuela
ProductionCompanies: 
Rake Films
La Faena
Movie: El Father Plays Himself
Top 3 Billed Cast
Jorge Thielen Armand
Self
Rodrigo Michelangeli
Self
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