New Order

Award-winning director Michel Franco (Chronic, After Lucia) returns with New Order, a gripping dystopian thriller set in contemporary Mexico City. Winner of the 2020 Venice Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, this is provocative filmmaking that dares us not to look away. When the lavish upper-class wedding of two citizens is suddenly interrupted by violent rioters who take their house by siege, it soon becomes apparent that this seemingly random attack is part of a nationwide uprising. As seen through the eyes of the sympathetic young bride Marianne (Naian Gonzalez Norvind) and the servants who work for – and against – her wealthy family, the film breathlessly traces the collapse of one political system as a more distressing replacement arises. With parallels drawn to the dark subversiveness of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Franco’s latest is an unflinching and pulse-raising allegorical tale that pairs edge-of-your-seat twists with biting social commentary, all the while delivering a short, sharp shock to the system.