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Film review: EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, from ‘Built For Speed’

The powerful, disturbing drama Embrace of the Serpent provides a scathing indictment of white colonialism and it’s destruction of indigenous cultures in the Amazon basin. The film is based on the diaries of two scientists from different decades: German ethnographic researcher Theodor Koch-Grunberg (Jan Bijvoet) and Botanist Richard Evans Schultes (Brionne Davis). Koch-Grunberg conducted a four year study of the

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What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 29th July 2016

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at the latest film in the Bourne saga, Jason Bourne. We also head up the Amazon River for the atmospheric drama Embrace of the Serpent. There’s plenty of fine music including tracks from bands who feature in MIFF’s Backbeat section and more of our favourite songs of the millennium (so

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