Movie Review
Alamar
“Alamar” follows a young boy, Natan Machado Palombini, as he goes on a trip with his Mexican father, Jorge Machado.
A Boy’s Slice of Paradise Is Time Alone With Dad
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In “Alamar,” a luminous semi-documentary film that plays on the border of reality and fiction, Natan Machado Palombini, a young boy, goes on an enchanted expedition with his father to the Banco Chinchorro, the largest coral reef in Mexico. The bonding of the son and his father, Jorge Machado, a lean, mustachioed Mexican fisherman who will return Natan to his Italian mother at the end of the trip, portrays a tender, ritualistic passing of knowledge, experience and love from one generation to the next.
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Male viewers deprived of paternal affection as children may feel a sharp pang of longing while watching Jorge, a hippie, oceanic Tarzan with a noble bearing, teach his son the ways of the sea in a place whose turquoise waters appear uncontaminated.
The characters in “Alamar” may be playing versions of themselves, but the writer, editor and director Pedro González-Rubio has constructed a film in which the journey has an overarching mythic resonance that evokes Movie Review - 'Alamar' - Father, Son and Egret in the Banco Chinchorro of Mexico - NYTimes.com
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