Embrace of the Serpent
Dramatic adventure tale depicts the relationships between an Amazonian shaman, the last of his tribe, and two exploring scientists who, decades apart, sought a rare healing plant.
"Embrace of the Serpent tells the epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes." (Cannes Film Festival)
- Director:
- Ciro Guerra ('The Wind Journeys')
- Writer:
- Ciro GuerraJacques Toulemonde Vidal
- Cast:
- Jan BijvoetAntonio BolivarNicolás CancinoBrionne DavisYauenkü MigueLuigi SciamannaNilbio Torres
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressAs a vision of the past, “Embrace of the Serpent” offers a stately, striking panorama and an entirely persuasive one.
The Washington Post
pressHas some of the most vivid images captured on film in recent memory, and also some of the most haunting.
The Guardian
pressThe type of film we’re always searching for, yet seems so obvious once we’ve found it.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAn absorbing account of indigenous tribes facing up to colonial incursions, revealing how Westerners are in many ways far behind the native peoples they conquer.
Empire Magazine
pressThough inspired by real-life journals, Guerra’s haunting and beautifully shot film transports us into the realm of the mystical and surreal.
Variety
pressAs a vision of the past, “Embrace of the Serpent” offers a stately, striking panorama and an entirely persuasive one.
The Washington Post
pressHas some of the most vivid images captured on film in recent memory, and also some of the most haunting.
The Guardian
pressThe type of film we’re always searching for, yet seems so obvious once we’ve found it.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAn absorbing account of indigenous tribes facing up to colonial incursions, revealing how Westerners are in many ways far behind the native peoples they conquer.
Empire Magazine
pressThough inspired by real-life journals, Guerra’s haunting and beautifully shot film transports us into the realm of the mystical and surreal.
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