Half-truths and infamous heist focus of Mexican movie "Museo"

Record ID: 1104520

  • Title: Half-truths and infamous heist focus of Mexican movie "Museo"
  • Date: 23rd February 2018
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 23, 2018) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR ALONSO RUIZPALACIOS SAYING "We approached the families of the two kids who committed the robbery and they both said they didn't want anything to do with the film, they asked us 'please don't do the film'. So that made us, that and the fact that everyone we interviewed had contradictory stories, you know, everyone said something that was opposite to what the other person said, it made us decide 'ok, let's go for the legend and not for the document' and that's when the film really started to come alive for me when we departed from it."
  • Embargoed: 9th March 2018 18:14
  • Keywords: Mexican movie Museo Berlin Film Festival Gael Garcia Bernal Alonso Ruizpalacios inspired by true story heist looting
  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • City: BERLIN, GERMANY AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA00483RVMTP
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: FILM CLIPS INCLUDE PROFANITIES
    "Museo", screening in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, centres on the most famous cultural artefacts heist in the history of Mexico.
    The film is loosely based on real-life events, but just like eye-witness accounts of the 1985 looting of artefacts from Mexico's National Anthropology Museum, it offers a variable take on what happened, makers of the movie said.
    The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Leonardo Ortizgris in its lead roles as two idle young men who take advantage of the lax security at the museum on Christmas Eve to carry out the heist and only later come to understand the scope and implication of their actions.
    Director Alonso Ruizpalacios said he wanted to explore the many truths historic stories often hold with his film. He said he also wanted audiences to question the ownership of historic artefacts held in museums around the world.
    "Museo", which also stars Bernardo Velasco and Ilse Salas, was partly shot on never-before filmed locations in Mexico.
    The film is one of the 19 movies vying for the main prize of the Berlin Film Festival, the Golden Bear, which will be awarded on Saturday (February 24).
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