Natan machado palombini biography sample
Pedro González-Rubio is a Mexican filmmaker born in Brussels who was initiated into the visual arts as a teenager when he lived in New Delhi..
Straight off, Adam Nayman deserves some kind of commission for convincing a small squadron of film journalists to catch Pedro González-Rubio's sophomore feature Alamar (To the Sea, ) at its last public screening at the Isabel Bader.
The film follows a young man from Italy, Natan Machado Palombini, who joins his father, Jorge Machado, and his grandfather, Nestór Marín, in a fishing village.
Boasting its world premiere in TIFF's Visions sidebar, Alamar was already part of my scheduled coverage of this year's Latin American fare, but it's always heartening to share a viewing experience with such accomplished journalists as Andrew Tracy, Danny Kasman, Darren Hughes, Girish Shambu, Richard Porton and Dan Sallitt.
Talk about fraternity! Though I didn't quite agree with Nayman (or Danny Kasman at The Auteurs) that Alamar was the "find of the festival"--for me that honor fell to Oscar Ruiz Navia's El Vuelco del Cangrejo (Crab Trap, )--I could certainly understand their shared enthusiasm for Alamar's pellucid simplicity.
"Pedro González-Rubio," Kasman writes, "has found a documentary subject and turned it into a lovely,