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Sep 14, 2018 · “Museo,” the director’s sophomore feature, builds on its predecessor’s promise very handily. A quasi-caper comedy about two layabouts who hit the road after stealing some priceless artifacts from Mexico City’s Anthropology Museum, the new film combines the filmmaker’s distinctive stylistic verve and droll wit with the talents and ...
Sep 13, 2018 · 2h 8m. By A.O. Scott. Sept. 13, 2018. Leer en español. In 1985, on Christmas Eve, thieves broke into the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and stole nearly 150 Mayan artifacts,...
Feb 23, 2018 · Made of dazzle and wit and melancholy, Alonso Ruizpalacios‘ fabulously entertaining “Museo” is loosely inspired by the tale of Mexico’s most infamous museum heist: the theft of 140 Mayan ...
Sep 27, 2018 · Inspired by infamous true-life events (the film winkingly calls itself “a replica of the original”), the 1985-set, heavily fictionalized “Museo” finds Juan (García Bernal) and narrator ...
Nov 15, 2018 · A witty, stylish, fancifully philosophical second feature from Mexico’s Alonso Ruizpalacios, the film spins a bracing tale based on the real-life Christmas Eve 1985 theft of 140 Mayan and...
Museo is a greatly appealing, bizarrely touching, fun and involving crime caper-come-character piece. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 28, 2020
Jan 15, 2021 · This film takes place in 1985 at the time of an audacious theft of 140 artifacts from one of Mexico City’s jewels, the National Museum of Anthropology, which shocked and outraged the country at the loss of important relics of their heritage. Ruizpalacios, creates his own version of events and the perpetrators.
