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Michel Franco on Venice Competition Title ‘New Order,’ Social Cataclysm in Mexico

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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. Franco’s heart however is obviously on the side of the protestors.“A Mexican disaster movie,” as Franco calls it, “New Order,” the only Latin American movie in Venice main competition, is Franco’s first direct social verdict on his homeland. “Mexico’s upper class are asking for trouble: They’re building up to a situation that will finally explode,” Franco told Variety in the run-up to Venice.

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