If the primary gift offered by foreign films is exposure to perspectives and cultures entirely different from our own, then director Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent must rank among the most ...

Black-and-white Amazon venture 'Embrace of the Serpent' is Colombian director Ciro Guerra's third film to be submitted to the Oscars — and the first to be shortlisted. Simultaneously stark and ...

Colombian film “Embrace of the Serpent,” directed by Ciro Guerra and produced by Cristina Gallego, won the best film award at the 46th International Film Festival of India (Nov. 20 – 30), in Goa.

It is unsurprising that Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s “Embrace of the Serpent” stormed through last year’s film awards circuit. First drawing acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the ...

Embrace of the Serpent—imbued with mind-bending shades of Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God and hints of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now—treks deep into the Amazon River and even deeper into ...

It is 1909 on the Amazon River in Columbia, and a German explorer is traveling up the river in search of a sacred plant when he encounters a shaman, the last survivor of his people. Thirty-one years ...

I had big plans when I first sat down to watch The Embrace of the Serpent. Armed with pen and legal pad, I resolved to record every plot point, key quote and stylistic detail. After about two minutes, ...

The story, Guerra says, has two different kinds of influence: it draws on the historical record and on much more flexible notions of time, reality and perception. Embrace of the Serpent, nominated ...

A legitimate stunner in that word’s truest sense, Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s river-trip Embrace of the Serpent mesmerizes and jacks with you, leaving you not quite certain, at its end, how to go ...

The snake of the title slides into the imagination at times, including in the pre-titles sequence. A mother snake, jaws agape, writhes alongside its just-born young. Of course the embrace of a snake ...