Winocour’s ability to build suspense is solid but she’s less confident when it comes to following through. She toys with perversity but sticks to formula.
Disorder(Maryland)
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France, Belgium · 2015
1h 38m
Director Alice Winocour
Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger, Paul Hamy, Victor Pontecorvo
Genre Drama, Thriller
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An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired by a wealthy Lebanese businessman to protect his wife and child at their luxurious villa on the French Riviera while he is out of town. A tightly wound, white-knuckled, bomb of a thriller that will have you reminding yourself to breathe.
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It's good stuff and, in a perfect world, will prompt Hollywood execs to take Winocour's directing skills very seriously.
Winocour hurtles into a violent, heart-in-mouth third act rife with look-behind-you peril. It’s a silly but robustly effective escalation of the latent suspense already conjured in the impressive, snakily extended party sequence.
Really a two-hander overall, Disorder is part home-invasion film, part bodyguard romance and part PTSD drama that delivers solidly on the first two fronts and and partially on the third.
A neat little thriller which unfortunately never achieves plausibility.
A notable, unusual existential thriller that is psychologically acute without the need for Oscar-clip self-pitying speeches, it’s also terrifically suspenseful with a provocative punchline.
The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy
The sensitive macho Schoenaerts is pretty much center-screen throughout this sleekly made suspense piece based on a script more loaded with holes than the numerous bad guys he either shoots or stabs to death.
Time Out London by Tom Huddleston
Overall, there’s just not enough going on in Disorder: largely plotless and set almost entirely in a single, bland location, it doesn’t have enough atmosphere to compensate for the lack of action.
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