Museo

Name: Museo
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: September 14, 2018
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 86
Cast: Alfredo Castro, Bernardo Velasco, Gael García Bernal, Ilse Salas, Leonardo Ortizgris

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Vitagraph Films | Release Date: September 14, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Alfredo Castro, Bernardo Velasco, Gael García Bernal, Ilse Salas, Leonardo Ortizgris, Leticia Brédice, Lisa Owen, Lynn Gilmartin, Maite Suarez Diez, Pablo Chemor, Simon Russell Beale

Summary: 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 seasonedPerennial 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.… Expand

Director: Alonso Ruiz Palacios

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 128 min

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John Anderson

Sep 13, 2018

Museo is in part a caper film, a heist film, and while it leans on such classics as “Topkapi” and “Rififi” the robbery has its own signature and is done in a visual style that’s hypnotic. Read full review

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Jessica Kiang

Ruizpalacios spins an irresistibly inventive and unusually intelligent tall tale from this kernel of truth. All the mischief, however, is precisely counterbalanced by a deep affection for his funny, flawed (largely fictional) characters and shot through with a surprisingly biting assessment of the compromised nature of the museum trade. Read full review

The Playlist Bradley Warren

It’s an endlessly entertaining, challenging investigation of history that confirms Ruizpalacios’ status as the next big thing in Mexican cinema. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Museum is an oddly genial, garrulous film in many ways – rather like Güeros – and it doesn’t behave quite like a heist thriller, nor exactly like a coming-of-age comedy. Read full review

Eric Monder

Sep 13, 2018

Ruizpalacios doesn’t waste the movie beating up on Juan’s foolishness. He’s painting a broader picture of ennui, lost suburban souls who seem to want nothing more than to tool around in their car and talk nonsense. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Sep 13, 2018

In spite of a meandering story and some fuzzy passages, there is a touch of magic in Museo, a sense of wonder and curiosity that imparts palpable excitement. Read full review

Filipe Freitas

Apr 2, 2019

Ruizpalacios, who did a more consistent job in his 2014 debut drama Gueros, combines adventurous theft, archaeology lessons, family aloofness, and a vitiated friendship all in one. The lens of cinematographer Damián García attractively captures all of this, but part of the energy accumulated during the journey wasn’t always canalized in the right direction. Read full review

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alejandro970

Nov 4, 2018

Narrado en primera persona, la crónica de uno de los robos de arte más audaces de la historia. Un vistazo a una juventud anquilosada y aburrida de un país en crisis, unos jóvenes que cometieron un robo que a la postre resultó inútil. Una de mas mejores propuestas del cine mexicano.

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pgaceves

Oct 29, 2018

Museo is a masterpiece in sense of direction, character development, and a sublime take on photography, along with Gael Garcia's powerful performance. The intake of Mexico's post 1985's devastating earthquake society is accurate in an intimate level, complemented with fun and real dialogues.Museo is a masterpiece in sense of direction, character development, and a sublime take on photography, along with Gael Garcia's powerful performance. The intake of Mexico's post 1985's devastating earthquake society is accurate in an intimate level, complemented with fun and real dialogues. Museo represents a win on Mexican cinema, and also works as a reminder to the international film community of the potential that Mexican filmmakers have to offer to this industry.… Expand

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Lajaleaa

Nov 6, 2018

"¿Para qué arruinar una buena historia diciendo la verdad?"

( 83/100 ) No conozco la espectacular historia criminal de mi país y aunque tengo una noción de la situación actual de los escándalos criminales internos de México, no me atrevería a opinar fuera de mi postura de consulta y"¿Para qué arruinar una buena historia diciendo la verdad?"

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No conozco la espectacular historia criminal de mi país y aunque tengo una noción de la situación actual de los escándalos criminales internos de México, no me atrevería a opinar fuera de mi postura de consulta y curiosidad. Museo le da un recuento a aquellos que lo vivieron y quienes no, sobre uno de esos escándalos: En 1985 hubo un saqueo al Museo Nacional De Antropología en donde los ladrones extrajeron alrededor de 140 piezas invaluables de la cultura de Mesoamérica y en Museo, de Alonso Ruizpalacios, viajamos por México junto a la joyas para explorar un tiempo y un espacio mexicano no tan distante y al mismo tiempo muy diferente.
Gael García Bernal y su fiel Sancho Panza, Leonardo Ortizgris, protagonizan esta aventura de saqueo y reencuentro cultural. La película tiene el ingenio para presentar el México de los 80s al llenar las escenas de detalles que conmemoran la estructura social mexicana de esa época con los electrodomésticos, la moda, la estética, la ambientación, la tensión socio-política y, en cierta medida, la influencia de los medios masivos. Ruizpalacios también nos muestra el panorama natural de éste país al dejarnos ver tanto la metrópolis urbana como rural. La fotografía, en ese aspecto, tiene éxito en presentar y, junto a la música de Tomás Barreiro, resaltar la belleza estructural de todo lugar al que vamos. El dúo logra una química algo disfuncional que le permitirá a la película presentar a nuestro héroe con un antagonismo qué creará tensión entre ellos y en varias situaciones. Lo mejor es que el público podrá verlas con el gusto de tener a un actor que no solo sepa apropiarse de las situaciones, sino que le exija al elenco mexicano que lo rodea el mismo impulso. Por lo tanto, el drama y la comedia serán niveladas por la impulsividad del personaje y el carisma del actor para lograr una justa dimensión de reacciones en la película.
Ruizpalacios me sorprendió con la grandilocuencia que logra en Museo y genera una series de discursos que vale mucho la pena ver, pues nos da la oportunidad de encariñarnos con nuestra herencia cultural y, al mismo tiempo, nos implanta el valor de la duda como un aspecto esencial para evaluarlo a todo.
Todos somos ladrones, saqueamos las tumbas y las herencias de nuestros antepasados para darles el valor que interpretamos, pero realmente no nos pertenece y nadie sabe cual es su valor, más que su creador, y a veces, ni ellos lo saben. ¿Qué tan importante es una cultura para preservarla? ¿Quien decide qué es importante y qué no? y ¿Qué tanta importancia le agrega uno a las cosas? son los pensamientos que nos llevan a reflexionar en la importancia de uno mismo y en lo invaluable de la vida cultural: tan cara que no se puede cobrar. "No hay preservación sin saqueo".
Ruizpalacios ganó, junta a Manuel Alcalá, el Silver Berlin Bear como Best Screenplay en el Berlin International Film Festival de éste año. Ese premio definitivamente lo coloca como uno de los directores emergentes con más relevancia del país que impulsará la siguiente generación de proyectos mexicanos a ser inspiracional.… Expand

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netflic

Oct 3, 2018

"Museo" is a heist movie but not a typical one. It is based on the greatest heist in Mexico history when in 1985 two collage dropouts, close friends, stole a large number of priceless Indian pieces of art from the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Motives for the robbery are"Museo" is a heist movie but not a typical one. It is based on the greatest heist in Mexico history when in 1985 two collage dropouts, close friends, stole a large number of priceless Indian pieces of art from the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Motives for the robbery are far from being crystal clear. Were they just bored and wanted to do something of significance?
Did they just want to get rich? Or maybe they wanted to get somehow attached to the ancestors' history by stealing sacred artifacts? And what is "stealing" after all?
Mexican government took it from the Indians and placed into the National Museum - isn't it a theft in itself?

The movie switches gears from a light comedy and satire when showing family and heist itself to philosophical reminiscences by one of the perpetrators.
In my opinion it would get better if it shed half an hour.… Expand

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