Embrace of the Serpent
aka El Abrazo de la serpiente
First screened in March 2016

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Director: Ciro Guerra. Cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolivar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Migue, Nicolás Cancino, Luigi Sciammana, Edward Mayo. Screenplay: Ciro Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal (based on the diaries of Theodor Koch-Grunberg, aka Richard Evans Schultes).

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Twitter Capsule: Complex, welcome rejoinder to coffeetable colonialism of The Mission, etc., but tad less than meets the eye?

VOR: ④  Even if the stylistic, political, and narrative gambits start to pay diminishing returns, the movie not only takes its own risks but opens new paths for tales in this genre.

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Photo © 2015 Oscilloscope Films/Ciudad Lunar Producciones

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B

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Academy Award Nominations:
	Best Foreign Language Feature
Other Awards:
	Cannes Film Festival: C.I.C.A.E. Award
	Sundance Film Festival: Alfred P. Sloan Prize

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