
Variety
As a vision of the past, “Embrace of the Serpent” offers a stately, striking panorama and an entirely persuasive one.
Full reviewDramatic 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)
LessAs a vision of the past, “Embrace of the Serpent” offers a stately, striking panorama and an entirely persuasive one.
Full reviewHas some of the most vivid images captured on film in recent memory, and also some of the most haunting.
Full reviewThe type of film we’re always searching for, yet seems so obvious once we’ve found it.
Full reviewAn absorbing account of indigenous tribes facing up to colonial incursions, revealing how Westerners are in many ways far behind the native peoples they conquer.
Full reviewThough inspired by real-life journals, Guerra’s haunting and beautifully shot film transports us into the realm of the mystical and surreal.
Full reviewEmbrace of the Serpent is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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