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 film
128 min / Color, DCP
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
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)
Contacts
Distant Horizon
8282 Sunset Boulevard, 90046, Los Angeles
United States of America
Phone: +1 323 848 4140
Fax: +1 323 848 4144
E-mail: la@distant-horizon.com
Panorama Entertainment
Orizaba 182, Colonia Roma, 06700, Mexico City
Mexico
Phone: +52 1 55 5405 5558
E-mail: gatica@panorama.global
