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As rich visually as it is thematically, Embrace of the Serpent offers a feast of the senses for film fans seeking a dose of bracing originality.
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The general theme of the tragic loss of undervalued civilizations to Western progress may not be new, but Guerra's brilliantly visualized fable is wholly original. October 17, 2017 | Full Review…
The general theme of the tragic loss of undervalued civilizations to Western progress may not be new, but Guerra's brilliantly visualized fable is wholly original.
M. Faust
Embrace of the Serpent is a breathtakingly gorgeous Oscar-nominated drama that caresses your eyes with its visuals as it bangs you over the head with its message. October 10, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Embrace of the Serpent is a breathtakingly gorgeous Oscar-nominated drama that caresses your eyes with its visuals as it bangs you over the head with its message.
Kevin Maher
Shot in luminous black-and-white in the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent looks like a series of animated photographs torn from the colonial explorers' journals that inspired it. July 29, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Shot in luminous black-and-white in the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent looks like a series of animated photographs torn from the colonial explorers' journals that inspired it.
Sandra Hall
It is surely one of the most beautiful films in a long time. July 28, 2016 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
It is surely one of the most beautiful films in a long time.
Paul Byrnes
While Guerra clearly owes a debt to Herzog and Coppola, he blazes his own trail. I can't wait to take this trip again. June 12, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
While Guerra clearly owes a debt to Herzog and Coppola, he blazes his own trail. I can't wait to take this trip again.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
What a gripping and absorbing piece of work. June 9, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
What a gripping and absorbing piece of work.
Peter Bradshaw
The journeys of two explorers, four generations apart, into the Colombian Amazon are beautiful, frightful, and at their wildest, half-crazed. July 29, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The journeys of two explorers, four generations apart, into the Colombian Amazon are beautiful, frightful, and at their wildest, half-crazed.
Andiee Paviour
It's hard to argue with an artistic vision as utterly distinctive as Guerra's. Even when his story stutters, it's hard not to be seduced by the sheer immersion of his filmmaking. May 1, 2019 | Full Review…
It's hard to argue with an artistic vision as utterly distinctive as Guerra's. Even when his story stutters, it's hard not to be seduced by the sheer immersion of his filmmaking.
Matthew Eng
A film that shoots for the moon and lands with ease, grace and nuance; a landing so perfect it infuses the viewer with a love of cinema and its possibilities. April 2, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A film that shoots for the moon and lands with ease, grace and nuance; a landing so perfect it infuses the viewer with a love of cinema and its possibilities.
David Brake
It is a glorious excursion, full of beauty and wonder, but it leaves its viewers more unsettled than before. March 7, 2019 | Full Review…
It is a glorious excursion, full of beauty and wonder, but it leaves its viewers more unsettled than before.
Nathaniel Rich
It almost feels like a religious experience, watching a movie that's as beautifully alien and removed from convention as Embrace of the Serpent. February 21, 2019 | Rating: 8.5/10 | Full Review…
It almost feels like a religious experience, watching a movie that's as beautifully alien and removed from convention as Embrace of the Serpent.
Bernard Boo
The time is our best card and our worst at the same time. Time is like the embrace of the serpent: it is warm but, at the same time, is really suffocating. Enjoy the marvellous hug. [Full review in Spansih] December 12, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The time is our best card and our worst at the same time. Time is like the embrace of the serpent: it is warm but, at the same time, is really suffocating. Enjoy the marvellous hug. [Full review in Spansih]
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