Ciro Guerra’s gripping monochrome film details the west’s obsession with exploiting indigenous life in stories of two white explorers,separated by decades This movie from Colombia was an Oscar nominee final year for best foreign language film – a Conradian jungle dream, or nightmare, or shot in searing,scorching monochrome. It has something of Herzog’s Aguirre or Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, a drama approximately the west’s obsession with the dark interior and with the money to be made for adventurers who are unafraid of the danger, and the equally intoxicating promise of original knowledge frontiers. Related: Embrace of the Serpent star: 'My tribe is nearly extinct' Continue reading...
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