''Museum'' ( es, Museo) is a 2018 Mexican
drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...
heist film directed by
Alonso Ruizpalacios, and produced and written by Ruizpalacios and Manuel Alcalá. 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
Two veterinary students, Juan Núñez (
Gael García Bernal) and Benjamín Wilson (
Leonardo Ortizgris), plan on robbing the
National Museum of Anthropology
The National Museum of Anthropology ( es, Museo Nacional de Antropología, MNA) is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street wit ...
in Mexico City and stealing precious Mayan, Mixtec, and Zapotec artifacts. While everyone celebrates Christmas in 1985, the two thieves manage to break inside the museum and steal hundreds of pieces of artifacts. They return home to see on the news how their deed is described as an attack on the entire nation, and realize that there is no turning back.
Cast
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Gael García Bernal as Juan Núñez
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Leonardo Ortizgris as Benjamin Wilson
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Simon Russell Beale as Frank Graves
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Lynn Gilmartin as Gemma
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Alfredo Castro as Dr. Núñez
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Leticia Brédice as Sherezada
Reception
References
External links
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2018 films
2018 drama films
Mexican drama films
2010s Spanish-language films
Films set in Mexico City
Heist films
2010s Mexican films