Museo [Sub: Eng]
It is a dramatic story about the world of criminality and excitement. That story began when Juan and Benjamin faced a miserable life in their 30s, seemingly unable to finish their veterinary studies. Both before and before Christmas Eve, they decide to loot the famous National Anthropological Museum in Mexico, which seems strange to two college boys.
12 January 1961, Penang, Malaysia
19 December 1955, Recoleta, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
August 26, 1972 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina
30 November 1978, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
November 26, 2018
Woven with uncertainties, Museum leaves a certainty: that of the already imposing height of Ruizpalacios as a filmmaker. [Full Review in Spanish]
November 16, 2018
Even after the story runs out, it's still a joy to watch.
September 14, 2018
Museo is in part a caper film, a heist film, and while it leans on such classics as Topkapi and Rififi the robbery has its own signature and is done in a visual style that's hypnotic.
November 14, 2018
"The second feature film by Ruizpalacios does not match the humor or the inventiveness of his extraordinary opera prima Güeros (2014), although it is not exactly a failure either".
December 17, 2018
. Bernal is too old to play ingénue, but his commitment to the film's genuine if sophomoric passion is laudable. The film's deep patriotism is remarkable.
November 19, 2018
Moviegoers looking for the kind of zip found in an "Ocean's" movie may feel a bit lost at sea with "Museo" and its offbeat rhythms and quirky charms. But the rewards definitely will be greater, if you keep an open mind.
November 15, 2018
"Museo" is the work of a genuinely creative directorial talent, and the early family scenes, richly detailed and shrewdly acted, provide just the right emotional context for this squabbling, indecisive gang of two.
November 26, 2018
It's a rapt and rapturous chronicle of a trip to nowhere. [Full review in Spanish]
November 05, 2018
Pure magic. [Full Review in Spanish]
September 27, 2018
"Museo" is a fun, stylish, singular heist flick that's about so much more than the theft itself.
November 05, 2018
There's nobody better than [director] Alonso Ruizpalacios... to address this event in Mexican history. [Full review in Spanish]
October 12, 2018
With his characters unable to fence the goods, writer-director Alonso Ruiz Palacios has no place to turn but in the direction of head-scratching surrealism.

