Archive of films Museum / Museo

Mexico
2017, 128 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2018

Christmas Eve, 1985. While the family is eating dinner Juan decides to implement his plan: he and his best friend are going to rob the National Museum of Anthropology. Alonso Ruizpalacios’s engrossing heist movie, inspired by the greatest burglary in Mexican history, features Gael García Bernal in the starring role.

Synopsis

Christmas Eve, 1985. While the family is eating dinner Juan decides to implement his plan – he and his best friend are going to rob the National Museum of Anthropology. But the theft of Mayan and Mesoamerican artifacts turns out to be far more serious than either young man imagined. Employing gentle humor and film references, Alonso Ruizpalacios’s engrossing movie is an example of the type of intelligent cinematic work that will mature well with age. The melancholy combination of buddy film, family drama, road movie, and heist flick abounds with inventiveness, and it’s no wonder the script, inspired by the biggest burglary in Mexican history, earned Ruizpalacios and Manuel Alcalá a Silver Bear at the Berlinale.

Sandra Hezinová

About the director

Alonso Ruizpalacios (b. 1978, Mexico City). Filmography: Paradise Café (Café Paraíso, 2008, short), The Cú Bird’s Last Song (El último canto del pájaro Cú, 2011, short), Güeros (2014), Green (Verde, 2016, short), Museum (Museo, 2018)

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section:	Horizons

Director:	Alonso Ruizpalacios
Screenplay:	Alonso Ruizpalacios, Manuel Alcalá
Dir. of Photography:	Damián García
Music:	Tomás Barreiro
Editor:	Yibrán Asuad
Art Director:	Sandra Cabriada
Producer:	Gerardo Gatica, Alberto Muffelmann, Manuel Alacalá, Ramiro Ruíz
Production:	Panorama Entertainment
Coproduction:	Detalle Films, Ring Cine, Distant Horizon, Serendipity Point Films, Fidecine
Cast:	Gael García Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris, Alfredo Castro, Simon Russel Beale, Lisa Owen, Bernardo Velasco, Ilse Salas, Leticia Bredice
Sales:	Distant Horizon
Contact:	Panorama Entertainment