New Order (film)

New Order
Theatrical release poster
SpanishNuevo orden
Directed byMichel Franco
Written byMichel Franco
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyYves Cape
Edited by
  • Óscar Figueroa
  • Michel Franco
Production
companies
Distributed byVideocine
Release dates
  • September 10, 2020 (2020-09-10) (Venice)
  • October 22, 2020 (2020-10-22) (Mexico)
Running time
86 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Mexico
  • France
LanguageSpanish
Box office$2 million[2][3]

New Order (Spanish: Nuevo orden) is a 2020 Mexican-French thriller art film.[4] It takes place in a dystopian near future Mexico. It was written, directed, produced and edited by Michel Franco and is a French-Mexican co-production.

The film had its world premiere on September 10, 2020 at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Shots of darker-skinned underclass attacking a lighter-skinned elite provoked a furious backlash on Mexican social media when its trailer was released because of its perceived racial stereotyping.[5] The criticism towards the film continued after its premiere in theaters and still remained after its release in streaming.[6][7][8][9][10] The film stars Naian González Norvind, Diego Boneta and Mónica Del Carmen.

Synopsis

In 2020, the gap between social classes in Mexico is increasingly marked. A high-society wedding is interrupted by a group of armed and violent rioters who are part of an even larger uprising of the underprivileged, and take the participants as hostages.[11] The Mexican Army exploits the disorder caused by the riots to establish a military dictatorship in the country. It involves the kidnappings of young adults, extortion, assaults, torture of the kidnapped while being held, and execution upon receiving no ransom, some of it, or all of it, by the Mexican military.

Cast

Production

Michel Franco started to develop the idea in 2014, and finished the script in 2017. Production concluded in May, 2019. The cast included Naian Gonzalez Norvind, Diego Boneta, Mónica Del Carmen, Fernando Cuautle, Darío Yazbek Bernal and Eligio Meléndez.

Release

The film had its world premiere on September 10, 2020 at the Venice Film Festival where it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize.[12] It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2020.[13] Shortly after, Neon and Mubi acquired distribution rights to the film in the U.S., the U.K., India, Ireland, Latin America and Turkey, respectively.[14][15] The film was released in Mexico on October 22, 2020, by Videocine.[16] It was released in a limited release in the United States on May 21, 2021.[17]

Reception

Critical reception

New Order holds a 67% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 104 reviews, with an average of 6.7/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "In spite of solid performances, New Order's merciless brutality and unfocused gaze threaten to derail its message."[18] On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 62 out of 100, based on 22 critics.[19]

Peter Debruge of Variety said: "Essentially picking up where The Joker left off, this ultra-provocative case of speculative fiction promises a view of what change might look like, only to succumb to a deep sense of cynicism as the scope of the film becomes unmanageable."[20]

IndieWire gave it a C+, as critic Nicholas Barber wrote: "It's a bold, angry, provocative indictment, but because Franco zooms back to the state-of-the-nation big picture, he loses sight of the characters who were sketched so sharply in the opening scenes. They’re still in the film, but they have so little agency and dialogue that they are reduced to counters on a board".[21]

In Spain, newspaper El País wrote: "The film does not come close to the fine class analysis that Bong Joon-ho's Parasite made, because it fails to increasingly develop the unbearable tension between rich and poor... His chaos scenes are closer to those seen in Todd Phillips' Joker, but without an actor like Joaquin Phoenix to understand the depth of the madness".[22] The sociologist David Leupold also sees a strong parallel between the two films, albeit, arrives at a more positive evaluation:

"New Order begins where Parasite ends ... In the case of Parasite we see the story unfolding from the perspective of the dispossessed family whereas in New Order it is through the perspective of an elite family subjected to violence by the dispossessed. What both films also have in common is the lack of clear moralizing attributes. Neither the elites appear as particularly vicious nor the disempowered as heroic ... It is clear that instead of self-righteous blaming, polemical simplifications and paternalizing moralizations, the directors are concerned with something else and much more decisive: exposing the acute structures of injustice and the imminent danger they harbour."[23]

Backlash in Mexico

Prior to its release in Mexican cinemas, the film's trailer was received with an overwhelming negative response from the public and internet backlash as the scenes of the trailer was called by Mexican audiences on social media "Classist, racist and painfully stereotypical portraits of upper and lower classes in Mexico".[24][25]

The racism accusations towards the film in Mexico worsened as director Michel Franco claimed the film was a target of "profound reverse racism" and felt himself as a victim of "hate crimes" as a White Mexican.[26][27][28] Franco would later post an apology on social media for his statements, claiming he was not aware of the impact of the terms he used towards the public's reception of the film trailer.[29][30][31]

José Antonio Aguilar, executive director of RacismoMX, a nationwide initiative in Mexico to address issues of racism in the country said: “The film's trailer repeats many racial stereotypes: brown people are poor, they’re savages, they’re resentful and want revenge.”[citation needed]

After the release of the film, Erick Estrada from the website Cinegarage wrote: "[To] the ones who wish [to] revert [to] the establishment, [it is] a warning about the consequences of their acts than calling attention to how it was before the country's militarization."[7] In Codigo Espaguetti, Nicolas Ruiz said the film is "[a criticism], with no empathy, from this cold distance that sees individuals as sheep and protesters as blood-thirsty zombies; it creates banal, shallow and Manichean representations".[8]

Arturo Magaña Arce in Cine Premiere reiterated the same view when he said the film "gives reason to those who judge people who, in a desperate way, [seek to] reclaim justice from the streets".[32]

See also

References

  1. ^ "New Order". Venice Film Festival. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  2. ^ "New Order (2020)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. ^ "New Order (2020)". The Numbers. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  4. ^ "'New Order' Review: Upsetting Art-House Thriller Frames a Fictional Uprising from the Perspective of the 1%". 10 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Film trailer touches a nerve as Mexico grapples with race and class". the Guardian. 2020-10-15. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  6. ^ "Amazon Prime estrena "Nuevo Orden"; usuarios reaccionan (+video)". 24 horas (in Spanish). 2021-03-16.
  7. ^ a b Erick Estrada (2020-10-16). "Nuevo orden, crítica". Cine Garage (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  8. ^ a b Nicolas Ruiz (2020-10-22). "Reseña: Nuevo Orden el espectacular miedo conservador Michel Franco". Codigos Espaguetti (in Spanish).
  9. ^ "Nuevo orden – Crítica de la película". Cine Premiere. 2020-10-22.
  10. ^ "Nuevo orden: la película que le teme a la pobreza". gatopardo.com. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  11. ^ Debruge, Peter (2020-09-10). "'New Order' Review: Upsetting Art-House Thriller Frames a Fictional Uprising From the Perspective of the 1%". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  12. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (28 July 2020). "Venice Film Festival 2020: Competition Light On Studios, Strong On Global Arthouse & Women Directors – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  13. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (30 July 2020). "Toronto Sets 2020 Lineup: Werner Herzog, Regina King, Mira Nair, Francois Ozon, Naomi Kawase Titles Join Hybrid Edition". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  14. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (September 29, 2020). "Neon Lands North American Rights To Michel Franco's Venice Grand Jury Prize Winner 'New Order'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  15. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (October 1, 2020). "Michel Franco's Venice Winner 'New Order' Gets UK & Ireland Distribution Deal".
  16. ^ "New Order". VideoCine. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  17. ^ Leishman, Rachel (April 22, 2021). "'New Order': NEON's Dystopian Film Receives First Disturbing Trailer". Collider. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  18. ^ "New Order (2020)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  19. ^ "New Order". Metacritic. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  20. ^ Debruge, Peter (2020-09-10). "'New Order' Review: Upsetting Art-House Thriller Frames a Fictional Uprising From the Perspective of the 1%". Variety. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  21. ^ "'New Order' Review: Michel Franco's Violent Protest Movie is Horrifying, Unpredictable, and Out of Control". 11 September 2020.
  22. ^ Osorio, Camila (2020-10-22). "El viejo orden de Michel Franco". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  23. ^ Leupold, David (2022-01-04). "Unhappy End Cinema". Medium. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  24. ^ "Película mexicana 'Nuevo orden' recibe críticas de clasista y racista en redes sociales". Dallas News (in Spanish). 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  25. ^ "La película Nuevo Orden desató un debate sobre racismo y clasismo en México (y ni siquiera se ha estrenado)". PlayGround (in Spanish). 2020-10-15. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  26. ^ "Whitexican, un término profundamente racista: Michel Franco". www.milenio.com (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  27. ^ "Decir whitexican es racismo: Michel Franco sobre críticas a Nuevo Orden". Animal MX (in Spanish). 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  28. ^ Vergara, Rosalía (2020-10-15). "Michel Franco dice que el término "whitexican" es racista y lo tunden en redes". Proceso Portal de Noticias (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  29. ^ "Michel Franco se disculpa por decir "whitexican" a días de estrenarse "Nuevo Orden" que triunfó en Venecia | Video". CNN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  30. ^ "'La regué enormemente': Michel Franco se disculpa por decir que usar 'whitexican' es racista". Animal MX (in Spanish). 2020-10-16. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  31. ^ "Michel Franco se disculpa por decir que usar "Whitexican" es racista". heraldodemexico.com.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  32. ^ "Nuevo orden – Crítica de la película". Cine Premiere (in Spanish). 2020-10-22.

Read other articles:

Fronsac, Gironde

FronsacFronsac Lokasi di Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine Fronsac Koordinat: 44°55′30″N 0°16′19″W / 44.925°N 0.272°W / 44.925; -0.272NegaraPrancisRegionNouvelle-AquitaineDepartemenGirondeArondisemenLibourneKantonFronsacAntarkomuneFronsacPemerintahan • Wali kota (2008–2014) Marcel DurantLuas • Land115,29 km2 (590 sq mi) • Populasi21.046 • Kepadatan Populasi20,68/km2 (1,8/sq mi)Kode INSEE/pos33174...

 

Fulvio Lucisano

Fulvio LucisanoLahir1 Agustus 1928 (umur 95)Roma, ItaliaPekerjaanProduser filmTahun aktif1954-kini Fulvio Lucisano (lahir 1 Agustus 1928) adalah seorang produser film Italia.[1] Pada 2005, ia dianugerahi sebuah penghargaan (Homage to Fulvio Lucisano) di Festival Film Internasional Venesia ke-62.[2] Filmografi pilihan Planet of the Vampires (1965) Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966) Due croci a Danger Pass (1967) Down the Ancient Staircase (1975) Blue Belle (1976)...

 

Gereja Kristen Indonesia di Sulawesi Selatan

Gereja Kristen Indonesia di Sulawesi SelatanLogo GKI SULSELPenggolonganProtestanPemimpinPdt. John ParengkwangDidirikan1923 Sulawesi SelatanNama lainGKI SULSEL Gereja Kristen Indonesia di Sulawesi Selatan (disingkat GKI Sulsel adalah kelompok Gereja Kristen Protestan di Indonesia, yang didirikan dan berkantor pusat di Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan. Sejarah Gereja Kristen Indonesia di Sulawesi Selatan (GKI Sulsel) dimulai dengan terbentuknya persekutuan ibadah berbahasa Mandarin yang dilayani oleh...

العلاقات الهندية السيراليونية

العلاقات الهندية السيراليونية الهند سيراليون   الهند   سيراليون تعديل مصدري - تعديل   العلاقات الهندية السيراليونية هي العلاقات الثنائية التي تجمع بين الهند وسيراليون.[1][2][3][4][5] مقارنة بين البلدين هذه مقارنة عامة ومرجعية للدولتين: وجه الم...

 

Panji-panji

Artikel ini perlu diwikifikasi agar memenuhi standar kualitas Wikipedia. Anda dapat memberikan bantuan berupa penambahan pranala dalam, atau dengan merapikan tata letak dari artikel ini. Untuk keterangan lebih lanjut, klik [tampil] di bagian kanan. Mengganti markah HTML dengan markah wiki bila dimungkinkan. Tambahkan pranala wiki. Bila dirasa perlu, buatlah pautan ke artikel wiki lainnya dengan cara menambahkan [[ dan ]] pada kata yang bersangkutan (lihat WP:LINK untuk keterangan lebih lanjut...

 

Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College

CMCC redirects here. For other uses, see CMCC (disambiguation). This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. (November 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Canadian Memorial Chiropractic CollegeTypePrivateEstablished1945PresidentDavid J. Wickes [1]Students~800Address6100 Leslie St...

List of Mexican films of 1971

This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Cinema of Mexico List of Mexican films Mexican Animation Horror films 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1940 1941 1942 1943 19441945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 19541955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 19641965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 19741975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 19841985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 19941...

 

Ma Long

Ma LongMa Long (2017)Personal informationNama asli马龙JulukanThe Dictator, The Dragon[1]Kebangsaan TiongkokLahir20 Oktober 1988 (umur 35)[2]Anshan, Liaoning, China[3]Gaya bermainRight-handed, shakehand gripEquipment(s)(2019) DHS W968 , DHS Hurricane 3 National (FH, Black), DHS Hurricane 3 National (BH, Red)Peringkat tertinggi1Peringkat sekarang3 (Maret 2020)KlubShandong WeiqiaoTinggi1.75 m[4]Berat72 kg Rekam medali Turnamen 1 2 3 Olympic Games 5 0 0...

 

Sandomierz Voivodeship

Sandomierz VoivodeshipPalatinatus Sandomirensis Województwo SandomierskieVoivodeship of Poland14th century–1795 Coat of arms Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635.CapitalSandomierzArea • 23,860 km2 (9,210 sq mi)History • Established 14th century• First partition August 5, 1772• Third partition October 24 1795 Political subdivisionscounties: 7 (as for 1662) Preceded by Succeeded by Crown of the Kingdom of ...

Connecticut State Militia

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: Connecticut State Militia – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2018) (Learn how and whe...

 

ضحايا الاحتجاجات البحرينية 2011

كتابة على الجدران تصور ثمانية ضحايا وصفوا بأنهم شهداء. اعتبارا من 15 مارس 2013 أسفرت الاحتجاجات البحرينية عن 122 حالة وفاة. من الصعب تحديد عدد المصابين بسبب سيطرة الحكومة على المستشفيات والعاملين في المجال الطبي. آخر تقدير دقيق للإصابات يعود إلى 16 مارس 2011 وقدر بحوالي 2708 مصاب. خل...

 

Taxation in Indiana

Overview about the taxation in Indiana 2007 sources of Indiana's revenue Taxes in Indiana are almost entirely authorized at the state level, although the revenue is used to fund both local and state level government. The state of Indiana's income comes from four primary tax areas. Most state level income is from a sales tax of 7% and a flat state income tax of 3.23%. The state also collects an additional income tax for the 92 counties. Local governments are funded by a property tax that is th...

Upul Tharanga

Sri Lankan cricketer Upul TharangaUpul Tharanga, October 2017Personal informationFull nameWarushavithana Upul TharangaBorn (1985-02-02) 2 February 1985 (age 39)Balapitiya, Sri LankaNicknameUpulaHeight5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)BattingLeft-handedRoleBatsmanInternational information National sideSri Lanka (2005–2019)Test debut (cap 103)18 December 2005 v IndiaLast Test12 August 2017 v IndiaODI debut (cap 125)2 August 2005 v West...

 

دوري كرة القدم الأذربيجاني الدرجة الأولى 2017–18

هذه المقالة يتيمة إذ تصل إليها مقالات أخرى قليلة جدًا. فضلًا، ساعد بإضافة وصلة إليها في مقالات متعلقة بها. (نوفمبر 2019) دوري كرة القدم الأذربيجاني الدرجة الأولى 2017–18 تفاصيل الموسم دوري كرة القدم الأذربيجاني الدرجة الأولى  [لغات أخرى]‏  البلد أذربيجان  مباريات م�...

 

Cherokee delegate to the United States House of Representatives

Political office Cherokee people's at-large congressional districtDelegate  Kimberly Teehee (designate from the Cherokee Nation)Victoria Holland (designate from the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians)Ethnicity100.0% Native American The Cherokee delegate to the United States House of Representatives is an office established via the Treaty of New Echota in 1835. The office was intended to represent the Cherokee people and was instrumental in negotiations of land transfer and soverei...

Kanta (perisai)

Kanta Sebuah perisai Kanta, sebelum tahun 1940. Jenis Perisai Negara asal Sulawesi Tengah & Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia Sejarah pemakaian Digunakan oleh Toraja, Bare'e Spesifikasi Panjang 110 cm Kanta adalah sebuah perisai tradisional yang digunakan oleh Suku Toraja dan Suku Bare'e dari Kabupaten Tana Toraja, Sulawesi Selatan dan Kabupaten Poso, Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia.[1] Deskripsi Kanta adalah perisai ramping yang berukuran panjang, berbentuk V di sepanjang bagiann...

 

2028 Summer Olympics

Multi-sport event in Los Angeles, California, US 2028 Olympics, Los Angeles 2028, and LA28 redirect here. For the Summer Paralympics, see 2028 Summer Paralympics. Games of the XXXIV OlympiadOne of several emblems of the 2028 Summer OlympicsHost cityLos Angeles, United StatesEvents35 sports (expected)OpeningJuly 14, 2028[1]ClosingJuly 30, 2028StadiumLos Angeles Memorial ColiseumSoFi StadiumSummer← Paris 2024Brisbane 2032 → Winter← Milano–Cortina 2026T...

 

Libius Severus

Western Roman emperor from 461 to 465 Libius SeverusSolidus of Libius Severus marked:d·n· libius severus p·f· aug·Roman emperor in the West (unrecognized in the East) Reign19 November 461 – 14 November 465[nb 1]PredecessorMajorianSuccessorAnthemiusEastern emperorLeo IBornLucania[5]Died14 November 465[nb 1]NamesLibius Severus (Serpentius?)ReligionChristianity Libius Severus , sometimes enumerated as Severus III,[6][7][8][9] was Wes...

Ford Zetec engine

Reciprocating internal combustion engine Ford Zetec engineOverviewManufacturerFord Motor CompanyProduction1991–presentLayoutConfigurationStraight-4Displacement1.0–2.4 L (999–2,402 cc)Cylinder block materialcast iron/aluminium 2012Cylinder head materialaluminiumValvetrainDOHC 4 valves x cyl.SOHC 2 valves x cyl.CombustionSuperchargerOn 1.0 L Brazilian versionTurbochargerOn Focus RSFuel systemFuel injectionFuel typePetrolCooling systemWater-cooledOutputPower output65–215...

 

Ronnie Hillman

Ronnie Hillman Datos personalesNombre completo Ronald Keith Ryan Hillman Jr.Nacimiento Long Beach, California14 de septiembre de 1991País  Estados UnidosNacionalidad(es) EstadounidenseFallecimiento Atlanta, Georgia22 de diciembre de 2022 (31 años)Altura 1,75 m (5′ 9″)Peso 91 kg (200 lb)Carrera deportivaDeporte Fútbol americanoEquipo universitario San Diego State AztecsEstado CaliforniaClub profesionalDraft 2012 / Ronda 3 / Selección 67Debut deportivo 2012(Denv...