Events & Calendars Embrace of the Serpent

Directed by Ciro Guerra. 125 minutes. Not Rated. Cubeo, Huitoto, Ticuna, Guarano, Ocaina, Spanish, Portuguese and others with subtitles.

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 forty years in the life of Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and two scientists who venture into the jungle.

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.
Wedneday, October 26 , 7 p.m.

Purchase tickets online in advance at Amherst Cinema website or in person at the box office.