Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A different way of telling a story

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Enjoyed this totally relaxed presentation of REAL reality life. The kid, the Dad and Grandpa were great, just being themselves, but an Academy Award should go to the camera person, and to the bird (as a best supporting actress). Could almost smell that seafood stew, yum. Rome looked pretty boring by comparison!

In Pedro Rubio-Gonzales' charming documentary film, we're introduced to a young family, sadly on the brink of a (apparently amicable) break-up. Before leaving for Europe with his mother, the child spends some time with his father, fishing off the beautiful Mexican coast. 'Alamar' just watches the two of them together: whatever his flaws as a husband, the father is laid back, and at one both with nature and his son: their time together is relaxed and fundamentally healthy, albeit in the form of a holiday from the everyday reality of working for a living. This isn't an earth shattering movie: but it's affectionate and heart-warming.

Feelings of great emotiveness immediately come to mind when thinking of Alamar. A fantastic documentary style film, Alamar deals with human relationships in a frank and moving manner.Beginning with Jorge speaking openly about his self criticism as a Father, Alamar goes into a short montage of pictures, achieve footage and music setting the emotive tone of the film as we are given the back-story of Jorge's failed relationship with Roberta, in which they produced a son. It's both beautiful to watch whilst saddening as we know it all came to an end which leads to the core focus of Alamar, a brief holiday between Jorge and his son Natan before departing from each other once more.The visual element of Alamar is the most powerful tool in conveying the relationship between Father and Son. The dialogue takes lower standing to this as the focus is placed on the pair interacting in the moment, Jorge holding his sleeping boy on a boat tenderly stroking his arm and later on teaching Natan how to swim underwater. These two examples are a small amount of organic situations in which Alamar focuses on making the viewing experience a vastly rich one. The hand held cinematography has to take credit also, making us become intimate with the people involved due to the cameras close proximity. One moment where Jorge's friend Matraca says directly to the camera, "I miss you, I adore you, I love you" makes us feel the love and lost he feels that would not have been achieved in any other form of cinematography.As well as being taken on an intimate ride with Jorge, Natan and Matraca on a emotional level Alamar can also been seen as a film of self discovery as like Natan, we are strangers to the ways of life in his Father's home of Banco Chinchorro. Here we learn at the same pace as Natan how the locals fish for their food, knowing where to stay clear of Crocodiles and study the mannerisms of an Egret. Jorge instills into Natan much knowledge that we also gain.If you are to fully understand and enjoy this feature then you have to require an appreciation of all that Alamar embodies. It is a film of such tranquillity, beauty, knowledge and raw human emotion that the viewer should let themselves be taken in by in order to feel Alamar's brilliance.

I am astounded by the obtuseness of the people here complaining that this beautiful movie lacks plot or narrative. A man and a woman drastically unsuited to each other have a child. The child spends some time with his father before his mother takes him away for good, far out of the father's reach. That's a huge story! Handled here the way it is, simply and sensitively, without false tension or wrong notes, this film delivers no thrills - no sharks, no drug cartels, no Russian submarines - just beautiful images and genuine emotions. The two fishermen are at one with nature, living lightly on the earth, or the sea rather, and they pass on their knowledge and wisdom to the boy with love. David Attenborough makes fine nature documentaries, obviously, but they have nothing to do with this movie.