Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticMexican 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 insult.A cold and sometimes overly intellectual filmmaker, Franco knows how to make an audience squirm.
That’s part of the bargain when we buy a ticket to one of his movies. In “After Lucia,” he asked viewers — trapped in their seats, helpless to intervene — to observe a vulnerable teen’s life go off the rails after a video of her having drunken sex went viral.
In “Chronic,” he turned the public’s attention to the emotional burden society heaps upon hospice nurses.But how many people actually saw these films?
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