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Eduardo San Juan

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To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Rodrigo Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hernán Cortes's epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with real-life victims of Mexico's failed drug wars, the filmmaker portrays the country's current humanitarian crisis as part of a vicious and unfinished colonial project, still in motion, nearly five hundred years later.

Provocative, unique, and strikingly cinematic, 499 mixes non-fictional and performative elements with elements of the road movie to show how past traumas continue to affect contemporary reality. While 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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499 (2020)

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Eduardo San Juan is known for I'll Crush Y'all (2023), Conquistadores: Adventum (2017) and Guris Guiris (2012).

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Known for

I'll Crush Y'all (2023)

I'll Crush Y'all

5.2

Isaías

2023

Conquistadores: Adventum (2017)

Conquistadores: Adventum

7.8

TV Mini Series

Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca
Rodríguez Fonseca

Guris Guiris (2012)

7.3

TV Mini Series

Mc. Coy

Eduardo San Juan in 499 (2020)

6.8

Self

2020

Credits

Actor

I'll Crush Y'all
5.2
- Isaías
- 2023
Conquistadores: Adventum
7.8
TV Mini Series
- Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca
- 2017
Guris Guiris
7.3
TV Mini Series
- Mc. Coy
- 2014

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499 - Official Trailer

499 - Official Trailer

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