MUBI, the global distributor and curated film streaming service, is pleased to announce that Michel Franco's dystopian thriller New Order will be available on Blu-ray and DVD from 11 October 2021 and can now be pre-ordered at the link above.
Award-winning filmmaker Michel Franco (Chronic, After Lucia) presents a shocking and provocative depiction of class warfare in contemporary Mexico. Winner of the 2020 Venice Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and recently long-listed for a BAFTA in the Best Film Not in English Language category, this is a gripping dystopian drama that dares us not to look away.
When the lavish upper-class wedding of two affluent 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 working class uprising. As seen through the eyes of the sympathetic young bride Marianne (Naian González Norvind) and the servants who work for - and against - her wealthy family, New Order breathlessly traces the collapse of one political system as a more harrowing replacement arises.
With parallels drawn to Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, Franco’s latest is a terrifying edge-of-your- seat commentary on the haves and have-nots of modern-day Mexico. New Order blends political allegory with an all-too-recognisable dystopian brutality that is subversive and disturbing in equal measure.
