Cinema Releases - Alamar
Winner, Tiger Award, Rotterdam Film Festival 2010
Grand Jury Prize, Miami Film Festival 2010
He has been the cinematographer for several films, among which for Born Without (2007) by Eva Norvind. Toro negro (2005) was his documentary debut. Alamar (2009) is his first feature film.
Watch a short interview
Read an interview in Time Out New York
ALAMAR (2009)
Director Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
Producers Jaime Romandia Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
Production company Mantarraya Producciones
Cinematography Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
Underwater cinematography David Torres and Alexis Zabe
Editor Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
A Mantarraya & Xkalakarma production.
CAST
Jorge Machado
Natan Machado Palombini
Nestor Marín, ‘Matraca’
Roberta Palombini
‘A staged documentary about a Mexican fisherman and his son that nonetheless manages to be tender, touching and true.’
Xan Brooks, The Guardian
'I loved every frame of it.'
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
★★★★
David Jenkins, Time Out
★★★★'I doubt I'll see a more lovely film this year'.
Edward Lawrenson, The Big Issue
'TERRIFIC'
Total Film
'A gorgeous docudrama...a powerful portrait of prelapsarian bliss...sweetly moving'.
Kevin Maher, The Times
'A joy to behold'
Metro
'Alamar feels like a sun-kissed dream-drift. It’s a haze of a film, tremulous with emotion, bursting with poignancy.'
Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph
'A JOY'
Empire
'DO NOT MISS the Mexican film ALAMAR ...ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST’
Time Out
'A REVELATION'
'Delightful...a poignant cinematic ode to father-son relationships, an elegy to the virtues of freedom in childhood, and a passionate defence of the integrity of nature's few remaining paradises.'
Lee Marshal, Screen International
Time Out New York
'In Alamar, a luminous semi-documentary on the border of reality and fiction, a young boy goes on an enchanted expedition with his father to the Banco Chinchorri, the largest coral reef in Mexico...'
Read the full review from The New York Times
★★★★
'Relish the adventure...SUBLIME'
'Jorge and Natan’s adventures have the verdant, lush texture of a Gauguin painting...This is a film so attuned to nature that one can easily drift off from the human narrative going on around its crystalline waters, cloudy skies, lounging crocodiles, and frigate birds.'
Read the full review by Michael Koresky in Reverse Shot.
Alamar Facebook page
Trailer in Higher Quality or HD
Read an interview with Pedro Gonzales-Rubio in Time Out New York
Read an interview in Ioncinema
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