Product Details

• Actors: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestor Marin Matraca
• Directors: Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Film Movement
• DVD Release Date: January 11, 2011
• Run Time: 73 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0038KT8ZW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,134 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Alamar" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Features include:

•MPAA Rating: UNRATED
•Format: DVD
•Runtime: 73 minutes

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly beautiful, January 31, 2011

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BJS (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alamar (DVD)

One of the loveliest films I've ever seen. An affair between a vacationing Italian woman and Jorge, a fiercely handsome Mexican fisherman, leads to the birth of a little boy, Natan. The couple breaks up, with sadness but no rancor, because there is no way to accommodate the distance between their respective worlds. When he is probably around five, the boy goes to spend a summer with his father and grandfather. The father offers all that he has: himself, his love, and his world. It is a world of men who live in nature, doing things a child can share, filled with wonder and beauty. At the end of their time together, a bond has formed between father and son.. "I will always be with you."

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, delicate, and emotional, June 9, 2011

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Alex (Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alamar (Amazon Instant Video)

Loved, loved, loved this film. It tells the incredible story or a Mexican man, Jorge, spending a summer in his native coast and in the sea (a la mar = to the sea) with his young son Natan before he has to bring Natan to stay with his mother in Rome. I don't want to use the term "male bonding" because it can have such silly connotations but ultimately that's what this movie is about; moreover, the bond between a father and son and the bond between men and nature. Jorge shows Natan their roots in the Mayan culture by bringing him along in the water on the Banco Chinchorro, a huge coral reef, where they fish. It looks at the physicality of men in both doing productive work to catch and prepare the fish and in playing with each other, just wrestling around.

A large egret, who they name "Blanquita," becomes a poignant theme in the film, showing Natan that sometimes you have to say goodbye, even if you did your best to get to know someone. As heartwarming as it is to see Jorge and Natan grow close, a pall hangs over the film as we know that they will have to part at the end of the trip. It was difficult to tell if the movie was fiction or a documentary, I've been doing some research and it still isn't clear - especially since Jorge and Natan are real-life father and son and Jorge did have to bring Natan to stay with his mother in Rome while he remained in Banco Chinchorro. This blurred fiction serves to make "Alamar" all the more powerful. The filming was very rhythmic, in time with the sea and nature around them. It was like being transported into a totally different time. Meanwhile, the scenery is marvelous and there are some really astounding underwater shots, including some of the men fishing like birds diving into the water with spears. Moving, wonderful film. It transported me to a nature paradise outside of the realm of cars, pollution, and cell phones. I only wish I could have stayed there longer..

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fishing with Natan, February 7, 2011

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birthdaynoodle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alamar (DVD)

Have you watched 'Fishing with John', John Lurie's tongue-in-cheek series of short documentaries, in each of which he takes one of his celebrity friends (Tom Waits, William Dafoe, Jim Jarmusch, etc.) fishing at an exotic location? This documentary is somewhat similar, only it's the real deal. You're invited to watch three generations of men (the youngest of which is a young boy called Natan) fishing freely off the coast of Mexico. For just over an hour you can forget about Facebook or Twitter, and observe what comes through as a beautiful, surprisingly bare way of life that is intrinsically connected to the wildlife and nature. Before Natan splits to Rome indefinitely with his Italian mother, his Mexican father and grandpa give the child a taste of what it's like to be a fisherman. Director Pedro González-Rubio does a great job at capturing the family's situation and a sense of the kind of memories that Natan is to carry with him across to Europe.