‘New Order’ Review: Upsetting Art-House Thriller Frames a Fictional Uprising From the Perspective of the 1%

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Neon has picked up North American rights to New Order,the new feature from Mexican director Michel Franco that won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month. The feature, which also played at the San Sebastián and Toronto fests, and is screening at the upcomingLondon and Chicago film festivals, is a look at a violent uprising against the wealthy ruling class.

Also Read: 'New Order' Film Review: A Political Horror Moment Gets Its Political Horror Movie“New Order” was written, produced and directed by Franco, and it stars Naian González Norvind, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Lisa Owen, Fernando Cuautle, Mónica Del Carmen, Eligio Meléndez, Diego Boneta, Patricia Bernal, Roberto Medina, Enrique Singer and Gustavo Sánchez Parra.Cristina Velasco L. and Eréndira Núñez Larios produced “New Order” with Teorema, in co-production with Les Films d’Ici.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorNeon has taken North American rights to Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco’s latest feature, New Order, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.Conceived six years ago, Michel Franco’s timely class conflict drama sees a high-society wedding interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests as protests rage on the streets.

Dave McNary Film ReporterNeon has acquired North American rights to Michel Franco’s dystopian social thriller “New Order.” The movie was this year’s winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.Set in a near-future Mexico City while protests rage, “New Order” focuses on a high society family preparing for a wedding when a former employee seeking emergency medical funds intrudes on the festivities.

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Also Read: Robert Rodriguez, Diego Boneta to Adapt Mexican Comic 'El Gato Negro' for Apple TV+“I was blown away by how impactful the script is not only in Mexico… being such a Mexican theme and having such an international angle to it was what I was very, very drawn to,” he said.“New Order” (original title: “Nuevo Orden”) is an extremely timely film that opens with a wedding when an uprising takes place in Mexico, showcasing the crime and corruption in the country.

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New Order have teamed up with Adidas to launch the nwrdrSPZL, a new collaborative capsule range.The Manchester icons teamed up with Adidas for the new range after being contacted by Gary Aspden – the founder and creator of Adidas Spezial.After travelling to Adidas’ headquarters in Germany, the band teamed up with leading designers to create a selection of items inspired by their unique sound and aesthetic.They include an outerwear jacket with distinctive stripes and a New Order sleeve patch –

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Anyone who has spent time in a major international metropolis with a luxury shopping precinct catering to the highest income bracket will be shaken by the startling image of a massive Louis Vuitton flagship store — in this case on Mexico City's chic Avenida Presidente Masaryk — splashed with the symbolic green paint of a protest movement, the ground nearby littered with corpses not yet cold.

Serious discussions on the perpetuated correlation between race and class in Mexico have dominated the country’s collective consciousness over the last few years. Cinema has actively participated in such reckoning, but never before as boldly as in Michel Franco’s “New Order (Nuevo Orden).” Bound to be contentious at home for its brutal depiction of a not-so-implausible and not-so-distant dystopia, the auteur’s latest shocks with blistering purpose.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“New Order,” Mexican Michel Franco’s near-future dystopia thriller that world premieres at the Venice Film Festival Thursday, begins with protestors, daubed in green paint, bursting into a swanky wedding peopled by Mexico’s indecently rich. They rob the guests, then shoot them dead.