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  • 2017
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2017
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 31 m

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.

Directed By: Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi

Written By: Abou Farman, Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi

  • 2017
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2017
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 31 m

Icaros: A Vision

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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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.

Directed By: Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi

Written By: Abou Farman, Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi

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80
Jul 13, 2017
Icaros is a mini-epic of serene, intelligent mind-body wooziness.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Maximilian Von Thun FULL REVIEW
80
May 15, 2017
The hallucinatory power of ayahuasca and the incantatory lure of rituals fuse with existential dread in this darkly hypnotic drama.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
80
May 11, 2017
This trippy work maps the intersections of West and East, body and spirit, faith and terror with beguiling grace.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Chullachaki Producciones, Conibo Productions, Nice Dissolve
Release Date May 19, 2017
Duration 1 h 31 m
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Website http://www.coniboproductions.com/
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Awards

Crested Butte Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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