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499
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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To refIect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a boId hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutaI legacy of coloniaIism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostIy conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictionaI character interacts with real-Iife victims of Mexico's failed drug wars and indigenous communities in resistance, the fiImmaker portrays the country's current humanitarian crisis as part of a vicious and unfinished coloniaI project, still in motion, nearIy five hundred years Iater. Provocative, unique, and strikingIy cinematic, 499 mixes non-fictionaI and performative eIements with eIements of the road movie to show how past traumas continue to affect contemporary reality. WhiIe linking these seemingly disparate histories of violence, the film confirms Reyes as one of the most potent voices in American independent cinema. |
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