An Italian woman meets a Mexican man. They fall in love, they have a son. And when the relationship ends, like a fairytale in which someone has to return to the mortal world from which he or she came, the woman readies herself and the child to head back to Rome.
Well, Mexico is just as much mortal territory as anywhere else. But the setting of "Alamar," the Caribbean Sea's Banco Chinchorro reef, an extravagantly beautiful landscape of clear azure waters and giant skies scattered with floating seagulls, has an incontestable air of the otherworldly.
That's where Jorge (Jorge Machado) is from, where his father Nestór (Nestór Marín) still lives, and where he brings his five-year-old son Natan (Natan Machado Palombini) for a last bit of time together before he goes off to live thousands of miles away.
In an open-air wooden shack perched out on the water, the men...
Well, Mexico is just as much mortal territory as anywhere else. But the setting of "Alamar," the Caribbean Sea's Banco Chinchorro reef, an extravagantly beautiful landscape of clear azure waters and giant skies scattered with floating seagulls, has an incontestable air of the otherworldly.
That's where Jorge (Jorge Machado) is from, where his father Nestór (Nestór Marín) still lives, and where he brings his five-year-old son Natan (Natan Machado Palombini) for a last bit of time together before he goes off to live thousands of miles away.
In an open-air wooden shack perched out on the water, the men...
- 7/14/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
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