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So little is said on any subject that we're free to make our own conclusions about the world Natan inhabits. Feb 25, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
So little is said on any subject that we're free to make our own conclusions about the world Natan inhabits.
Linda Barnard
"Alamar" takes a lyrical approach to a story about father-son bonding in the tropics. It's as sketchy as it is beautiful. Dec 2, 2010 | Rating: 3/4
"Alamar" takes a lyrical approach to a story about father-son bonding in the tropics. It's as sketchy as it is beautiful.
John Hartl
It is to González-Rubio's credit that he can celebrate nature so joyously, yet suggest neither the preferred lifestyle of either parent is superior to the other. Oct 14, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
It is to González-Rubio's credit that he can celebrate nature so joyously, yet suggest neither the preferred lifestyle of either parent is superior to the other.
Kevin Thomas
As much home movie as neorealist non-narrative, Alamar provides a nearly hypnotic immersion in the brilliantly aqua, impossibly tranquil Caribbean -- a Paradise Regained not just for Natan but for everyone. Oct 14, 2010 | Full Review…
As much home movie as neorealist non-narrative, Alamar provides a nearly hypnotic immersion in the brilliantly aqua, impossibly tranquil Caribbean -- a Paradise Regained not just for Natan but for everyone.
J. Hoberman
Alamar, for all its laid-back charm, offers no real answers and its naivety is perplexing. Sep 9, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Alamar, for all its laid-back charm, offers no real answers and its naivety is perplexing.
Peter Bradshaw
Moving but never sentimental, ambient but rigorously focused, this is an assured, refreshingly simple film where the dramas and responsibilities of parenthood exist inside a bubble of blissed-out tropicalia. Sep 8, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Moving but never sentimental, ambient but rigorously focused, this is an assured, refreshingly simple film where the dramas and responsibilities of parenthood exist inside a bubble of blissed-out tropicalia.
David Jenkins
At its best, Alamar affirms that the "patient, meditative" film or the stylistic exercise is far less of a cinema pestilence than emotionally cynical works like Life During Wartime. Jul 1, 2013 | Full Review…
At its best, Alamar affirms that the "patient, meditative" film or the stylistic exercise is far less of a cinema pestilence than emotionally cynical works like Life During Wartime.
Nicolas Rapold
Alamar is a slow, beautiful meditation on nature, family and the relationship between father and son. Feb 25, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/5
Alamar is a slow, beautiful meditation on nature, family and the relationship between father and son.
Liz Braun
It's hard to tell whether this line has been scripted or captured, but it packs an emotional punch all the same. Feb 25, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It's hard to tell whether this line has been scripted or captured, but it packs an emotional punch all the same.
Adam Nayman
An extraordinary portrait of a positive and meaningful father-son relationship that touches the heart. Jan 12, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An extraordinary portrait of a positive and meaningful father-son relationship that touches the heart.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A beautifully shot and carefully nuanced look at the forging of a bond between a father and a son. Jan 10, 2011 | Full Review…
A beautifully shot and carefully nuanced look at the forging of a bond between a father and a son.
Ian Buckwalter
The opposite of stimulating storytelling: It's a pseudo-vacation. Jan 7, 2011 | Full Review…
The opposite of stimulating storytelling: It's a pseudo-vacation.
Tricia Olszewski
Sweet film that makes you wonder how much of this is a documentary and how much of it was scripted. Something to while away a Sunday afternoon with. Nice length however. I think any more sweetness, I would begin to find it grating.
Super Reviewer
"Alamar" is a sweet, gentle and beautifully filmed movie. Once upon a time, Jorge(Jorge Machado) and Roberta(Roberta Palombini) fell passionately in love and had a child but then reality set in. It soon became clear they had distinct needs in life, being from very different places, and separated.(Cue the opening credits from "Green Acres.") At the start of the movie, Roberta, who lives in the urban paradise of Rome, is sending their son Natan(Natan Machado Palombini) to spend time with his father and other relatives at the aquatic paradise of Banco Chinchorro in Mexico. It is there in a sort of men's club(the only sign of women are the pin-ups adorning the huts) that Natan is shown how to explore underwater and fish by his father and grandfather(Nestor Marin) which his family has been doing for generations. This resonated with me, reminding me of fishing as a boy in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, although we never caught fish anywhere near that large. In fact, the fish are so large and plentiful in the movie that even the crocodile does well for himself, just sitting around.
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