A father of Mayan origins and his son Natan spend their last days together before Natan returns to live with his Italian mother in Rome. Spending their days at sea, their relationship grows as they connect with life above and below the surface of the sea.--©Official Site
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The New York Times
Stephen Holden
““Alamar” (“To the Sea”) risks lapsing into ethnographic sentimentality and at moments comes perilously close to turning into an escapist fantasy of abandoning civilization for never-never land. But in a gentle, firm voice, it teaches hard lessons about impermanence and letting go.”
13/07/2010
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The Observer
Philip French
“A limited delight that's over too soon.”
12/09/2010
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The Daily Telegraph
Sukhdev Sandhu
“Is it fiction? Is it a documentary? Alamar, by Mexican director Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, feels like a sun-kissed dream-drift. It’s a haze of a film, tremulous with emotion, bursting with poignancy.”
09/09/2010
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Time Out
David Jenkins
“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.”
09/09/2010
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The Times
Kevin Maher
“The final sequence, of the once terrified Natan scuba-diving alone, is both beautiful to watch and sweetly moving.”
10/09/2020
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Total Film
Tom Dawson
“Paring dialogue to a minimum, González-Rubio immerses us in a world of natural beauty; better still, he never allows the bonding to turn soggy.”
14/09/2010
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Empire Magazine
David Parkinson
“A joyous exploration of family life that will touch and surprise.”
20/09/2010
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
“It is almost a “silent movie”, even amid speech. But by the end, when a bottle with a boy’s message in it, thrown into the sea, is rhymed in the next and final shot with a bubble blown over a Rome park, we realise a perfect story has been told. That of a boy creating his formative memories, fragile, translucent, eternal.”
15/09/2010
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“The pace is gentle, the characterisation minimal, the location breathtaking.”
10/09/2010
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“There are some lovely, gentle moments in this documentary-style feature from Mexican director Pedro González-Rubio, set around the ravishingly beautiful coral reef of Banco Chinchorro in the Caribbean off the Mexican coast.”
09/09/2010
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