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Embrace of the Serpent is a 2015 internationally co-produced adventure drama film directed by Ciro Guerra, and written by Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Shot almost entirely in black and white, the film follows two journeys made thirty years apart by the indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle, one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an American botanist, both of…
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Originally, this post was supposed to be a review of the Waiting for the Barbarians movie starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, and Robert Patterson. However, I stopped watching that movie halfway through due to a lack of interest. Still, I liked the directing of the movie and ended up seeking the director's name, Ciro Guerra. I went to his Wikipedia page and it ended up highlighting one film that was nominated for th…More
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Karamakate (Nilbio Torres) is a young shaman, part of a forgotten and perishing tribe, who has reconciled with his loneliness, living in the Amazon River valleys. The German researcher Theo (Jean Bievoiet) and his guide Manduca (Miguel Dionisio Ramos) appear in his life as unexpected guests - the first one is on the border of death, and his friend asks the shaman for help. In the eyes of Karamakate, Theo is a repres…More