Bruce Parry isn’t that sort of filmmaker, and nobody could accuse him of painting an overly romantic view of life in the Amazon. If anything, he could probably do with soft-soaping it more, because the first episode of Tribe with Bruce Parry makes for often gruelling viewing.
Bruce takes a wash in the remote river Tiquie in the Colombian Amazon (Photo: BBC/Frank Films/Rory Jackson)
By the time he joins the 24-hour barfing people, Parry had already been living for a fortnight or so among the Waimaha people in the Colombian rainforest. He is trying to persuade the leaders of the community to allow him to participate in a religious ceremony that involves communicating with forest spirits via hallucinogenics.
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Let’s be honest: the barfing will be a deal breaker for many. How much of the Parry purge do we need to see? Couldn’t he have just told us about it off-camera? Get past it, though, and Tribes is an engaging portrayal of a community trying to hold on to its customs in a modern world changing at breakneck pace. One villager says her sister left at 15 to find work as a nanny. She refuses to come home. “She doesn’t speak our language…she thinks she is a white person now.”
Bruce about to eat a pam weevil grub in the Colombian Amazon (Photo: BBC/Frank Films/Rory Jackson)
But he assures us that it is worth all the pain. The next day, he lies in a river, letting the waters course over him, a broad smile on his face. “This isn’t just a place where you grow your food. It’s a relationship you have with the forest – it’s something you can feel,” he says. It’s a fascinating insight into the challenges and rewards of living so intimately with the natural world – but what a shame that the journey to that revelation has been so exacting for presenter and audience alike.
‘Tribe with Bruce Parry’ starts on Sunday 30 March at 9pm
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