{"id":1540,"date":"2016-02-01T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2016-12-30T23:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T23:09:34","slug":"embrace-of-the-serpent-el-abrazo-de-la-serpiente-columbia-thursday-29-september-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/02\/embrace-of-the-serpent-el-abrazo-de-la-serpiente-columbia-thursday-29-september-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT [EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE, Colombia] &#8211; Thursday 29 September, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e8ouI-8fJiE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Language Film.<\/p>\n<p>At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the Colombian\u00a0landscape\u00a0in\u00a0the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, the film centres on an Amazonian shaman and the last survivors of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of forty years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers who travelled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and rare psychedelic Yakruna plant.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best reviewed films of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/feb\/17\/embrace-of-the-serpent-review-ciro-guerra-colombian-amazon\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0review.\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u00a0<em>&#8216;Embrace of the Serpent is the type of film we\u2019re always searching for, yet seems so obvious once we\u2019ve found it.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click here to read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/17\/movies\/review-embrace-of-the-serpent-where-majesty-meets-monstrosity.html%20 \">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong> &#8216;Critics&#8217; Pick&#8217; review.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/embrace-of-the-serpent-review-skullduggery-and-atrocity-in-the-amazon-1.2677131\">The Irish Times<\/a> <\/strong>review.\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n<p>99% rating from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/embrace_of_the_serpent\/\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia, 2015 | Language: Spanish | 125 minutes | Cert: 12A<\/p>\n<p>Starring: Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bol\u00edvar, Yauenk\u00fc\u00a0Miguee<\/p>\n<p>Languages: German, Portuguese,Latin, Spanish, Catalan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Language Film. At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the Colombian\u00a0landscape\u00a0in\u00a0the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}