Icaros: A Vision

Name: Icaros: A Vision
Genre: Drama
Released: May 19, 2017
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Ana Stieglitz, Arturo Izquierdo, Disney Lopez, Dominga Valles, Filippo Timi

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Factory 25 | Release Date: May 19, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Ana Stieglitz, Arturo Izquierdo, Disney Lopez, Dominga Valles, Filippo Timi, Guillermo Arévalo, Lizeth Ariana Izquierdo López, Lurdes Valles, Maria Arevalo, Taylor Marie Milton

Summary: Her medical options exhausted, an American woman travels to the Amazon in search of a miracle. Thanks to a young ayahuasca shaman who is losing his eyesight, she learns instead to confront her ‘susto’: the disease of fear.

Director: Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Nick Schager

May 11, 2017

This trippy work maps the intersections of West and East, body and spirit, faith and terror with beguiling grace. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jul 13, 2017

Icaros is a mini-epic of serene, intelligent mind-body wooziness. Read full review

Richard Brody

May 15, 2017

The hallucinatory power of ayahuasca and the incantatory lure of rituals fuse with existential dread in this darkly hypnotic drama. Read full review

Maximilian Von Thun

May 18, 2017

Sidestepping the question of whether or not shamanic methods 'work' in a scientific sense, Caraballo and Norzi directly depict the psychedelic experience of Ayahuasca itself by seamlessly blending dream and reality into a single stunning whole. Read full review

John DeFore

May 22, 2017

Calling itself a "vision" as opposed to a "film," Icaros attempts to conquer fear — of death, of blindness, of loss — by accepting the potency of a magic it knows it will never understand. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

May 17, 2017

The film has a calming and inevitable quality, and a leisurely sense of pacing that favors image and sound over narrative propulsion, that slows our own biorhythms, fostering our sensorial empathy with the passengers. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

May 18, 2017

Once in a while a narrator relates facts about the forest; occasional CGI flourishes don’t disappoint so much as they remind us of the challenges of summoning to the screen what the brain simply creates. Icaros comes closer than most movies manage. Read full review

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