Embrace of the Serpent

2016 • 123 minutes

About this movie

Tracking two parallel odysseys through the Amazon three decades apart, this visionary adventure epic from Colombian director Ciro Guerra offers a heart-rending depiction of colonialism laying waste to indigenous culture.

Ratings and reviews

exquisitely directed by ciro guerra, embrace of the serpent confronts the difficult realities of science and spirituality, colonialism and indigeneity, and ultimately greed and self-sacrifice. one of the most potent, tragic and important films i have seen.

Pretty Amazing film