Icaros: A Vision is about a white, American woman who -- confronted with a terminal illness -- embarks on a trip for a seemingly indefinite stay at a Shamanistic resort in the jungles of Peru. With a synopsis like this, I was concerned that Icaros would succumb to certain tropes of the white-tourist subgenre (think Eat, Pray, Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), which are at best hokey and insincere, at worst offensive and reductive. Mercifully, the film avoids most of the problems that characterize such films, and emerges as something else entirely. Once the film's ostensible lead heroine, Angelina (Ana Cecilia Stieglitz) arrives at the resort, she serves as the audience-surrogate for really only the first quarter of the film. After this, both...
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- 4/26/2016
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