Commander Fort: chaotic and with an author's look, the docuseries asks more questions than answers

A priori, making a series about Ricardo Fort, a character who from the age of 40 showed much of the last five years of his life, might seem redundant.

But

unanswered.

El comandante Fort

, the documentary series that Star+ premiered, narrates the rise and fall of the heir businessman, singer, actor and theater producer, with

.

Instead of judging or claiming it, the docuseries

.

How did an eccentric and at times authoritarian millionaire become so popular?

Ricardo Fort, through the videos that he had himself filmed obsessively, is the real protagonist of his docuseries.

The four episodes mix unpublished archival footage and testimonials

from his closest circle, with some fiction.

Ricardo Fort impersonators -from the outset,

technology (an artificial intelligence technique)

-, Juan José Muscari in the role of host,

, and his last partner,

, provide

.

Created, directed and produced by

, each chapter addresses a facet of his story and is told with his own imprint.

To the videos of Fort himself -a la Truman Show, he decided to film his life daily-, and behind the scenes of that same reality,

, in which RF talks about his failure in music and his first loves, among other things.

The production shows the lights and shadows of the character.

The first episode -one hour long- delves into the privacy of those years of media maelstrom, when

and become a celebrity in Argentina, something he had been trying without success in Miami.

He also reconstructs the family genealogical tree -from his grandfather Felipe, founder of the chocolate empire-, to begin to understand the null link with his father and the mandates he had to break.

“Ricardo Fort lived as he wanted, died as he could and became a digital saint”

, says the voiceover of actor Claudio Rissi, while the operatic

plays in the background, which

.

, closes this successful introduction to the docuseries.

Marta and Felipe Fort, Ricardo's children, take over the third episode of the doscuseries.

The second episode narrates

in Miami.

His first couple appears,

of the late '80s and a photographer who photographed him naked and who tells of his obsession with the perfect body.

Now without Rissi as narrator,

of the most revealing episode.

The third episode focuses more on his children, Marta and Felipe, who

in which the heirs actively participated.

And the fourth, whose protagonist is Gustavo Martínez, his last couple,

De él.

The docuseries

who in front of the camera was full and sure of himself, but in reality he hid traumas, obsessions and insecurities like anyone else.

In February 2013, leaving the clinic after having been operated on for peritonitis in Mar del Plata.

He died nine months later.

But, more than that, he succeeds in his attempt to analyze and understand it without falling into morbidity, cracks or subjective views around his figure.

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Rating:

Documentary series 

Ricardo Fort, Marta and Felipe Fort, José María Muscari, Gustavo Martínez (voiceover by Claudio Rissi) 

Patricio Álvarez Casado.

Four episodes available on Star+.

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