499
2022
DVD
To reflect on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director 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 Hernan Cortes₂ 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 Mexico₂s failed drug wars and indigenous communities in resistance, the filmmaker portrays the country₂s current humanitarian crisis as part of a vicious and unfinished colonial project, still in motion, nearly five hundred years later.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (88 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- Dolby Digital 2.0
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note:
- E.
- Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title:
- Four hundred ninety-nine
- Four nine nine
Notes:
- Bonus features: audio commentary; The making of 499; theatrical trailer; booklet.
- Originally produced in 2020.
- Title from container.
- Eduardo San Juan.
- DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
- For private home use only.
- Audio track in Spanish, Nahuatl, with optional subtitles in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number: CG 198
Control Number: 3200901
UPC: 881164001597
Publisher: New York, NY : Cinema Guild, [2022]Subjects:
- Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.
- Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- 21st century.
- Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.
- Spain -- Colonies -- Mexico -- History.
Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Experimental films.
- Foreign films.
- Historical films.
- Motion pictures, Mexican.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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