{"id":18517,"date":"2026-04-01T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18517"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:03:16","slug":"alamar-2009-pedro-gonzalez-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18517","title":{"rendered":"Alamar (2009, Pedro Gonz\u00e1lez-Rubio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kid is visiting Dad, who catches fish and lobsters along the coral reef.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/alamar1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>I chilled out to the movie&#8217;s rhythms, and could&#8217;ve fallen asleep if not for this excellent egret.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/alamar3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/producer\/jaime-romandia-1\/\">producer<\/a> is a powerhouse, the director has some little-seen followup films, and you could (and probably should) watch three of &#8217;em together in the same runtime as the Henry Fonda doc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/alamar2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Adam Nayman writes that Gonzalez-Rubio &#8220;gets a film&#8217;s worth of astonishing footage, almost all of it shot by the filmmaker himself with a single HD camera,&#8221; and they discuss the &#8220;fiction inside the story&#8221; (the egret was an unstaged wild encounter).  G-R: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have been honest if I had shot this intimate story and then slept at night in another place, rather than in the palafitte on a hammock, waking up with the first rays of the sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kid is visiting Dad, who catches fish and lobsters along the coral reef. I chilled out to the movie&#8217;s rhythms, and could&#8217;ve fallen asleep if not for this excellent egret. The producer is a powerhouse, the director has some little-seen followup films, and you could (and probably should) watch three of &#8217;em together in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,239,3478],"class_list":["post-18517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-birds","tag-pedro-gonzalez-rubio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18554,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517\/revisions\/18554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}