“Before he can become a warrior, a man has to leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams.” Oscilloscope has released an official trailer for the film Embrace of the Serpent, the official Oscar Foreign Language entry this year from Colombia. It’s a mesmerizing B&W feature described as a “violent, psychedelic film about colonization”. The story follows two real explorers from history, Theodor Koch-Grünberg played by Jan Bijvoet and Richard Evan Schultes played by Brionne Davis, who travel through the Colombian Amazon in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. This looks like an immersive and particularly unique storytelling experience, you might want to give this a watch. ›››
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