Conceived six years ago, Mexican writer-director Michel Franco’s (CHRONIC, AFTER LUCIA) near-future dystopia NEW ORDER feels ripped from headlines that haven’t yet been written.

While protests rage in the streets, Marianne’s high society family prepares for her wedding. At first, only splatters of green paint and the appearance of Rolando, a former employee seeking emergency medical funds, intrude on the festivities.But soon the party is unable to keep the reckoning at bay, and what follows is a swift disintegration of law and order defined first by class lines,then by disastrous government recapitulation. With Naian González Norvind, Fernando Cuautle, Diego Boneta.

Bold, brazen, and at times merciless in its brutality, NEW ORDER‘s mesmerizing portrayal of a society violently thrust towards its chaotic, maddening descent, is a provocative gut-punch that dares you not to look away.

“This is the kind of film that should be required viewing on yachts and private islands, and at the G-8 and Davos conferences.” (THE WRAP)

“Franco practically dares the viewer to call his conclusion far-fetched. And for better or worse, the director’s dynamic filmmaking makes some of his projections stick.” (New York Times)

“The film remains impossible to shake, so rare are the stories we’re told that refuse to cushion the blow and so close do this story’s blows come to where we live now.” (Boston Globe)

“Presents a ruthlessly barbaric vision of social breakdown with melt-your-face-off intensity.” (Slashfilm)

Tuesday, August 3
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NEW ORDER “Nuevo Orden” (Michael Franco, 2020 / 86 mins / 18 A Graphic Violence / Spanish with English subtitles) In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.