How to Deal
What is love anyways but the fast train to heartache? At least that's what Halley (Mandy Moore) thinks when learning '...
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-Grunberg and Richard Evan Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.