Variety
As a vision of the past, “Embrace of the Serpent” offers a stately, striking panorama and an entirely persuasive one.
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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)
Less2015Rating: M, Violence & content that may disturb125 minsColombia, Venezuela, ArgentinaSpanish, Portugese, German, Catalan and Latin with English subtitles.
DocumentaryHistoricalWorld Cinema
- Director:
- Ciro Guerra ('The Wind Journeys')
- Writer:
- Ciro GuerraJacques Toulemonde Vidal
- Cast:
- Jan BijvoetAntonio BolivarNicolás CancinoBrionne DavisYauenkü MigueLuigi SciamannaNilbio Torres
Embrace of the Serpent | Awards
C.I.C.A.E. Award winner at Cannes Film Festival 2015; Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance 2016
Embrace of the Serpent | Reviews
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The Washington Post
Has some of the most vivid images captured on film in recent memory, and also some of the most haunting.
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The Guardian
The type of film we’re always searching for, yet seems so obvious once we’ve found it.
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Hollywood Reporter
An absorbing account of indigenous tribes facing up to colonial incursions, revealing how Westerners are in many ways far behind the native peoples they conquer.
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Empire Magazine
Though 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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