Embrace of the Serpent
*PLEASE NOTE: The theater at this venue is on the 2nd level (up one flight of stairs) and there is no elevator available.
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DATE
Sunday, April 10, 2016 -
TIME
4:30 PM -
VENUE
Old Town Temple -
TICKETS
$5
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Embrace of the Serpent -
Embrace of the Serpent
Embrace of the Serpent
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.