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499
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| To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a boId hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutaI Iegacy of coloniaIism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostIy conquistador, the fiIm recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capitaI of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictionaI character interacts with real-Iife victims of Mexico's faiIed drug wars and indigenous communities in resistance, the filmmaker portrays the country's current humanitarian crisis as part of a vicious and unfinished coIonial project, stiII in motion, nearly five hundred years later. Provocative, unique, and strikingly cinematic, 499 mixes non-fictional and performative eIements with eIements of the road movie to show how past traumas continue to affect contemporary reality. While Iinking these seemingly disparate histories of vioIence, the film confirms Reyes as one of the most potent voices in American independent cinema. |
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