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Sep 10, 2020 · Mexican director Michel Franco ’s latest, dystopian shock drama “ New Order ,” proves to be the most punishing entry in a difficult oeuvre, which may sound harsh but isn’t meant as an ...
Sep 5, 2021 · In Franco’s new film, Sundown, Roth is a more cryptic figure, a wealthy Brit strangely numb to the loss and trauma suffered by his family, for reasons revealed only in the closing scenes. In ...
Sep 9, 2020 · Credit: The Match Factory. “ New Order ,” Mexican director Michel Franco ’s near-future dystopia thriller that world premieres at the Venice Film Festival Thursday and also screens in ...
Sep 12, 2023 · While Jessica Chastain and director Michel Franco walked carpets and conducted press conferences at the Venice Film Festival, where they were feted for their film Memory, the duo were also holding ...
Michel Franco does not have an idea beyond “maybe we’re all bad sometimes” and “let’s show a woman getting extensively tortured” number 3: this treats working class Indigenous Mexicans starting a revolution against the rich who’ve perpetuated their oppression like the North Korean army in the 2012 remake of Red…
Michel Franco's New Order is showing exclusively on MUBI in the United Kingdom starting September 10, 2021. After six features in ten years, Michel Franco’s filmography is now large enough for his latest to court comparisons to his previous works. But both thematically and visually, New Order is something of an outlier. Set in a dystopian ...
Nov 29, 2023 · Jessica Chastain says Michel Franco has a similar outlook to her own: 'I'm really drawn to directors who are willing to take big swings.'
