event Alamar

A fiction/documentary hybrid owing much to the films of Robert Flaherty, Pedro González-Rubio’s Alamar mixes scripted moments with real ones in an affecting effort to evoke a father-son relationship. Alamar begins with home movies and slide-show footage charting the brief, ill-fated love affair between Jorge Machado (a scrawny, long-haired Mexican who’s lived most of his life in the jungle and on the beach) and Roberta Palombini (an Italian who prefers the comforts of civilization). Before separating, the couple had a son named Natan, whom Roberta is about to take with her to live in Rome. Prior to Natan’s departure, Jorge takes the boy on a fishing trip, so he can teach his son the simple life skills he himself learned when he was young: how to catch and clean fish, how to tie knots, how to sand a boat, and how to enjoy what the day brings.

A fiction/documentary hybrid owing much to the films of Robert Flaherty, Pedro González-Rubio’s Alamar mixes scripted moments with real ones in an affecting effort to evoke a father-son relationship. Alamar begins with home movies and slide-show footage charting the brief, ill-fated love affair between Jorge Machado (a scrawny, long-haired Mexican who’s lived most of his life in the jungle and on the beach) and Roberta Palombini (an Italian who prefers the comforts of civilization). Before separating, the couple had a son named Natan, whom Roberta is about to take with her to live in Rome. Prior to Natan’s departure, Jorge takes the boy on a fishing trip, so he can teach his son the simple life skills he himself learned when he was young: how to catch and clean fish, how to tie knots, how to sand a boat, and how to enjoy what the day brings.

A fiction/documentary hybrid owing much to the films of Robert Flaherty, Pedro González-Rubio’s Alamar mixes scripted moments with real ones in an affecting effort to evoke a father-son relationship. Alamar begins with home movies and slide-show footage charting the brief, ill-fated love affair between Jorge Machado (a scrawny, long-haired Mexican who’s lived most of his life in the jungle and on the beach) and Roberta Palombini (an Italian who prefers the comforts of civilization). Before separating, the couple had a son named Natan, whom Roberta is about to take with her to live in Rome. Prior to Natan’s departure, Jorge takes the boy on a fishing trip, so he can teach his son the simple life skills he himself learned when he was young: how to catch and clean fish, how to tie knots, how to sand a boat, and how to enjoy what the day brings.