{"id":2767,"date":"2016-05-06T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/05\/06\/disorder-is-a-paranoid-nerve-wracking-drama\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T16:32:22","slug":"disorder-is-a-paranoid-nerve-wracking-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/05\/06\/disorder-is-a-paranoid-nerve-wracking-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Disorder is a paranoid, nerve-wracking drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Rose \/ CULT #MTL<\/em><\/p>\n

Ever since his return from the war, Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) is plagued with what appears to be PTSD: he can\u2019t sleep, he\u2019s paranoid at all times, popping pills he gets off a war amputee buddy\u2026 but that doesn\u2019t stop him from taking a security job with his old army buddy Denis (Paul Hamy). They\u2019re tasked with security for a large party being thrown by Whalid (Percy Kemp), a wealthy businessman whom Vincent soon surmises got that way through shady arms dealings.<\/p>\n

Working security isn\u2019t obvious for a man plagued with paranoid delusions that someone is always out to get him, which complicates things when Vincent agrees to take a cush gig \u201cbabysitting\u201d Tarik\u2019s beautiful, lonely wife Jessie (Diane Kruger) and their young son Ali (Za\u00efd Errougui-Demonsant) for a couple of days. While he\u2019s away on business, Tarik\u2019s dirty dealings are exposed. Soon, men have Jessie and Tarik\u2019s palatial estate under siege \u2014 or do they really?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an irresistible pitch for a movie, but the devil\u2019s in the details. On paper, it reads like it could either be fantastic or a generically titled mid-January release that exists mostly as a paycheque for Liam Neeson or Ethan Hawke. Thankfully, director Alice Winocour (best known for her period drama Augustine and for co-writing the excellent Mustang) has a feel for the material that\u2019s more Michael Haneke than The Purge: Anarchy. While nominally a home-invasion movie in content, Disorder (confusingly renamed from its original French title, Maryland \u2014 the name of Jessie and Tarik\u2019s palatial compound) plays with the rather clich\u00e9d notions at its core in a compelling, novel way.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrooding brute\u201d and \u201cbeautiful\/bored\u201d are such recurring archetypes for both Schoenaerts and Kruger that they probably came printed on their resum\u00e9s for years; the casting isn\u2019t particularly canny but it works, especially in the way that the film subverts your expectations of intensity. Vincent is monosyllabic, sullen, removed; his muscles and shaved head are the only indication that he could spring to action if push came to shove. Jessie is glamorous, beautiful, icy \u2014 if anything, she seems more likely to be able to deal with conflict than Vincent if it wasn\u2019t for the safety of her young son.<\/p>\n

If most thrillers are slow-burn, this is a brisket given 14 hours on indirect heat. We\u2019re left to stew in Vincent\u2019s paranoia for most of the film, peering in on private conversations and slinking around in the shadows looking for something that isn\u2019t there unless you go looking for it. Winocour shows an excellent grasp of the unsaid, the murky and the slightly-off. Disorder works better as a slippery, shadowy prelude to a thriller than it does a cracking genre film like the week\u2019s other release, Green Room; it hardly has the intensity to match that kind of film, but as a nerve-wracking drama, it\u2019s more than satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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