El Father Plays Himself
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.
Starring Jorge Thielen Armand, Jorge Thielen Hedderich
Watch "El Father Plays Himself" on Mubi released in 2020. It's a documentary movie, and has a rating of 7.8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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