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Museo (2018)

By The Miniplex (other events)

13 Dates Through Dec 03, 2018
 
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Alonso Ruizpalacios’s exhilarating new film starring Gael Garcia Bernal is based on the real-life 1985 Christmas Eve robbery of nearly 150 priceless Mayan, Aztec and Zapotec relics from Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology - the nation’s most shocking heist story and one carried out not by seasoned thieves, but disaffected suburban students. "Made of dazzle and wit and melancholy, fabulously entertaining... It’s not every director who could take Hitchcock, Looney Tunes, 'Rififi,' The Doors and Bresson in his bouncy stride but Ruizpalacios pulls it off with a joyful sureness." - Variety

"Grand, with lush music and elegant wide-screen compositions, it feels less like a thriller than a poetic, intermittently comic meditation on beauty, history and middle-class disaffection... The story of a pair of clumsy criminals becomes a pretext for celebrating the beauty and complexity of Mexico’s landscape and history." - New York Times

"A cinematically exciting meeting point of the grandiose, the suspenseful and the pathetic." - Hollywood Reporter

"An endlessly entertaining, challenging investigation of history that confirms Ruizpalacios' status as the next big thing in Mexican cinema." - The Playlist

Perennial students Juan and Wilson are planning a daring coup. They intend to break into the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and steal precious Mayan, Mixtec and Zapotec artefacts, in particular the funerary mask of King Pakal. While their families celebrate Christmas they get down to business, just like a couple of seasoned criminals. Everything goes off without a hitch and, with their sports bags stuffed full of treasures, they return home to see on the news how their deed is described as an attack on the entire nation. Only now do they realise the gravity of their actions. Feeling more than a little queasy, they set about fencing their haul. The ensuing road movie takes us from the impressive Mayan ruins of Palenque to the chic seaside resort of Acapulco. Even when Juan and Wilson are behind the wheel, their endeavour has long since gone off the rails... Not Rated, 128 mins.

 

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