New Order

New Order is a 2020 Mexican-French thriller art film. 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. The criticism towards the film continued after its premiere in theaters and still remained after its release in streaming. 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. 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 Naian Gonzalez Norvind as Marianne Diego Boneta as Daniel Mónica Del Carmen as Marta Fernando Cuautle as Cristian Darío Yazbek as Alan Eligio Meléndez as Rolando Roberto Medina as Iván Patricia Bernal as Pilar Lisa Owen as Rebeca Enrique Singer as Victor Gustavo Sánchez Parra as General Oribe