
Her medical options exhausted, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon in search of a miracle. She lands at a healing center where shamans minister to a group of foreign psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the secrets of life and death. Her perceptions forever altered by the ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca, she forges a bond with a young indigenous shaman who is undergoing a crisis of his own: he is losing his eyesight. In ... (Full plot summary below)
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Her medical options exhausted, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon in search of a miracle. She lands at a healing center where shamans minister to a group of foreign psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the secrets of life and death. Her perceptions forever altered by the ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca, she forges a bond with a young indigenous shaman who is undergoing a crisis of his own: he is losing his eyesight. In their visionary journeys together they attain a different sense of their destinies. She learns to accept her fears while, in turn, he realizes that he will be able to see in the dark and sing his ceremonial healing songs, the icaros.
Leave your thoughts about Icaros: A Vision.
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeCalling 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. |
| CineVueMaximilian Von ThunSidestepping 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. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerYou may find this sparse film maddeningly elusive, but chances are you’ll come out of it with your head spinning, in a good way. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe hallucinatory power of ayahuasca and the incantatory lure of rituals fuse with existential dread in this darkly hypnotic drama. |
| VarietyNick SchagerThis trippy work maps the intersections of West and East, body and spirit, faith and terror with beguiling grace. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenThe 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. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleIcaros is a mini-epic of serene, intelligent mind-body wooziness. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerThe 90-minute movie reaches for the ineffable, and is downright lysergic in how much it gets right. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlOnce 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. |