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Embrace of the Serpent

El abrazo de la serpiente

2015

Ciro Guerra

Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis ...

7.3

6,150

Adventure. Drama The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"A visually mesmerizing exploration of man, nature and the destructive powers of colonialism"	POS
United States	Farran Smith Nehme New York Post	"A sudden lurch into trippy abstraction at the end simply doesn't work, but for the vast majority of the time this is a strong and original film (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	John Hopewell Variety	"'Embrace of the Serpent’ is a very high-profile arthouse film with the rhythm and tension of classic adventure movies. The visually stunning black and white photography gives a new dimension to the representation of the ‘green inferno.’"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"While its strange rhythms may not be for everyone, it does provide something unusual in today's movies: a truly original experience for the mind and the soul"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"It's an absorbing, even thrilling head trip. It is a Heart-of-Darkness voyage of discovery. It is a lament for all the lost plants and peoples of the world."	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Village Voice	"The majesty of nature is Embrace of the Serpent's true star, and Guerra captures the glory of every leaf, every inch of sky, in pearlescent black-and-white as luminous as the lining of a clamshell"	POS
Canada	Peter Howell Toronto Star	"Apocalypse wow (...) Ciro Guerra channels and transforms the dark-hearted river quests of Coppola and Conrad with his elegiac fourth feature (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The going can be a bit slow at first, but the interweaving narratives (...) begin to develop a hypnotic grandeur. It’s a hell of a trip."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'Embrace of the Serpent', a fantastical mixture of myth and historical reality, shatters lingering illusions of first-world culture as more advanced than any other, except technologically."	POS

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