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.
A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle. 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.
SELECTED PRESS
“Riveting intensity... a tantalizing house of mirrors.”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Utterly engrossing…”
SIGHT & SOUND MAGAZINE
“A deeply human portrayal.”
VARIETY
“Sincerely one of the best films of 2020.”
THE CRITERION CAST
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