On Sunday, September 5, 2010, 6:00pm at Gene Siskel Film Center
Address: 164 N. State St, Chicago, IL | Cost: $12

2009, Pedro González-Rubio, Mexico, 73 min.

Poised delicately between documentary and drama, ALAMAR is the almost wordless observation of life in a stunningly beautiful but demanding paradise that boasts one of the planet’s most intact ecosystems.

Two people fall in love, have a son, and sorrowfully part, acknowledging that they forever exist in different worlds. Natan, the five-year-old child of this fleeting union, is sent from Rome to spend the summer with his father, a subsistence fisherman who lives in a hut on stilts in the Mexican Caribbean.

The wonder of crocodiles and egrets, lobsters and barracuda, sunsets and storms unfolds before Natan’s eyes as he absorbs the lessons of a father’s love.
*In Spanish and Italian with English subtitles.

Showtimes
Sat, Sep 4th at 7:00pm
Sun, Sep 5th at 6:00pm
Thu, Sep 9th at 6:15pm
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/alamar