
Documentary
EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF
"A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself."
20201h 45m7.0 TMDb
Directed by Mo Scarpelli
Spoiler-Free
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.
Cast
Movie Vibe
Suspense5
Emotion5
Complexity7.5
Humor5
Realism9.2
Action5
Darkness5
Who would enjoy this
Recommended for
- ✓people who enjoy learning through film
May not appeal to
- –those seeking nonstop action
- –those looking for narrative fiction
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