499 (movie)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | 499 |
| Country of production | Mexico , USA |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 87 minutes |
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| Director | Rodrigo Reyes |
| script | Rodrigo Reyes, Lorena Padila |
| production | Inti Cordera, Andrew Houchens |
| camera | Alejandro Mejía |
| cut | Andrea Chignoli, Daniel Chávez Ontiveros |
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499 is a film by Rodrigo Reyes in semi-documentary form, the participants of the Tribeca Film Festival was placed on April 15, 2020 online first became available. In the film, a conquistador finds himself in the future 500 years after the Spanish conquest.
action
A conquistador washes ashore and wakes up. While walking across the dunes, he realizes that 500 years after the Spanish conquest he somehow landed in Mexico in the future. As the conquistador looks at the new sights, he meets people whose lives have been changed in one way or another by violence, and he listens carefully.
He hears from a policeman who died at the age of just 24. Another man stole 100 kilograms of cocaine that he is trying to sell back to the person who stole it. In every city he stops in, he hears such stories that mix with the images and memories of his own past as he tries to get to the capital.
production
It was directed by Rodrigo Reyes , who also wrote the script with Lorena Padila .
Eduardo San Juan Breña took on the role of the time-traveling conquistador. The actor had already played the lead role in the 2017 miniseries Conquistadores Adventum, a Spanish conqueror who lived during the years when Columbus discovered America. The people the Conquistador meets in the film and whose stories he hears are played by Jorge Sánchez, Martha González, Sixto Cabrera and Lorena Gutiérrez, among others.
In mid-April 2020, the film should celebrate its premiere as part of the Tribeca Film Festival . One month before the start of the festival, it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic and postponed indefinitely. Nevertheless, the film was made available online from April 15-26, 2020, the festival's original time slot. A first trailer was presented around the time of this “virtual premiere”.
reception
Reviews
"The future is not committed to the past, but history should never be forgotten."
Bobby LePire of Film Threat writes in his review that director Rodrigo Reyes and co-writer Lorena Padilla had a heartbreaking look at Mexico, its history and its culture with their film. 499 is a bold, unique film that still finds hope in grief and optimistically looks forward to the future while still remembering the sins of the past. The most striking element of 499 is Alejandro Mejía's camera work, according to LePire. The wide-angle shots almost swallowed Eduardo San Juan Breña's figure and made it clear that not even he can with all his "power" stand against Mother Nature. The film is beautiful to watch and its majestic images linger in the minds of everyone who sees it.
Awards
Hot Docs International Documentary Festival 2020
- Awarded the Special Jury Prize
- Nomination for best film in the Documentary Competition
- Award for the best camera in the Documentary Competition ( Alejandro Mejia )
Web links
- 499 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 499 in the program of the Tribeca Film Festival (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jordan Raup: Exclusive Trailer for Rodrigo Reyes's Tribeca-Selected 499 Tells the Tale of a Time-Traveling Conquistador. In: The Film Stage, April 12, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d Bobby LePire: 499. In: filmthreat.com, April 19, 2020.
- ^ Rebecca Rubin: Hugh Jackman, Pete Davidson Movies to Screen at Tribeca Film Festival. In: Variety, March 3, 2020.
- ↑ a b 499 In: tribecafilm.com. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
- ↑ Marc Malkin: Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Due to Coronavirus. In: Variety, March 12, 2020.
- ^ Hilary Lewis and Trilby Beresford: Tribeca Film Festival to Debut Online Programming as Films Are Judged Remotely. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 3, 2020.
- ↑ 499 - Trailer. In: critic.de. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
- ↑ Hot Docs 2020 Awards. In: hotdocs.ca. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
- ↑ Amanda N'Duka: Tribeca Film Festival: Netflix's 'The Half of It', 'The Hater', 'Socks On Fire' Among Award Winners For Postponed 2020 Edition. In: deadline.com, April 29, 2020.
- ↑ The Winners Are In. In: tribecafilm.com, April 29, 2020. (Video)