Museum (2018 Film)
''Museum'' () is a 2018 Mexican drama heist film directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, and produced and written by Ruizpalacios and Manuel Alcalá. It's based on the true story of the 1985 Christmas Eve robbery of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and follows two veterinary students, Juan Núñez ( Gael García Bernal) and Benjamín Wilson ( Leonardo Ortizgris), as they commit the heist, stealing precious Mayan, Mixtec, and Zapotec artifacts, and its aftermath. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. Plot The film opens with a flashback of five-year-old Juan Núñez visiting the Tlaloc monolith at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, which his father told him was taken from its original home in San Miguel Coatlinchán. In present day, we see an adult Juan ( Gael García Bernal) and his friend Benjamín Wilson ( ...
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