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Article: `Amazon' works as both travelogue, advocacy film.(VARIETY)(Review) (movie review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 27, 1998
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"Amazon" offers a nice balance between a travelogue and advocacy filmmaking. Opening today at the Imation Imax Theatre at the Minnesota Zoo, it makes a plea for the conservation of the South American rain forests by introducing some of its fascinating life forms: plant, animal and human.
Narrated by actress Linda Hunt, the film follows the parallel journeys of two "medicine men." One is Mamani, a Callawaya shaman who is traveling from the mountains of Bolivia to the Amazon River to gather herbs that have curative powers. The other is Mark Plotkin, an American scientist who has gone to the area to study how the indigenous people use the native plants for healing.