Dramatic adventure tale depicts the relationships between an Amazonian shaman, the last of his tribe, and two exploring scientists who,...
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)
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85 %8,978 reviewsAudience score rating
"As a vision of the past, “Embrace of the Serpent” offers a stately, striking panorama and an entirely persuasive one."
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Variety
Variety"[A] mesmerising film."
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Total Film
Total Film"Unique and intoxicating, an art movie that grips like a thriller."
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Time Out
Time Out"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 Washington Post
The Washington Post"The type of film we’re always searching for, yet seems so obvious once we’ve found it."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"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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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"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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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineEmbrace of the Serpent | Details
Award winner- C.I.C.A.E. Award winner at Cannes Film Festival 2015; Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance 2016
- Runtime
- 125
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina
