{"id":15868,"date":"2017-04-26T18:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T22:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2017-04-26T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:16:21","slug":"dvd-disorder-maryland-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=15868","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Disorder \/ Maryland (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Film<\/strong>:\u00a0Very Good<\/p>\n

Transfer<\/strong>: \u00a0Excellent<\/p>\n

Extras<\/strong>:\u00a0Standard<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0IFC<\/p>\n

Region:<\/strong>\u00a01 (NTSC)<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0December 13, 2016<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Suspense<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0A down on his luck ex-special forces vet reluctantly accepts a babysitting job for a wealthy couple, and is the only one convinced a murder or kidnapping is imminent.<\/p>\n

Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Theatrical + Digital Trailers.<\/p>\n

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Alice Winocour\u2019s suspense-drama feels like an extreme reduction of Man on Fire<\/a><\/strong> (1987 + 2007 film versions), with Matthias Schoenaerts (A Bigger Splash<\/a><\/strong>) playing Vincent, a PTSD war vet making an involuntarily transition into civilian life as a bodyguard for a security agency specializing in assorted dignitaries and industrialists. Vincent\u2019s likely dismissal from active duty due to hearing issues and possible hallucinations makes him a perfect fit for a babysitting gig that involves a night in which he and five colleagues patrol a party at an Arab-French industrialist\u2019s massive estate, but it\u2019s a also pity favour tossed in his lap by buddy and team leader Kevin (Micha\u00ebl Dauber), knowing Vincent\u2019s sanity benefits from being busy and focused.<\/p>\n

Vincent\u2019s suspicions of a looming crisis \u2013 an attack, kidnapping, or murder \u2013 has him sleeping in 2 hour shifts, monitoring the estate\u2019s lone inhabitants: a cook and servant, the industrilist\u2019s wife Jessie (Diane Kruger), and her young son Ali (Za\u00efd Errougui-Demonsant). Vincent isn\u2019t patient nor seeking to be anyone\u2019s friend:\u00a0 he\u2019s a bully to Ali at breakfast, and since the party, he sneaks stalker-like gazes at Jessie but his military discipline keeps him in check, whether at home or during a brief beach visit, but his suspicions come true when shady dealings with Middle Eastern figures sends a team of assassins to mete out punishment on mother and child.<\/p>\n

As a minimalist suspense-drama, Disorder<\/strong> works, given no one\u2019s happy, communicative, or especially content to being alive. Even Jessie treats motherhood as a job that\u2019s tolerable, but the film is very much locked from Vincent\u2019s stance, with his house & grounds patrol being unnervingly banal, scoping security cameras in the hope of an aberration to break the monotony, and sounds yield some genuine emotional harm. Most of the film deals with routine, and Vincent\u2019s suppression of demons that\u2019s partly accomplished from medication handed over by a fellow vet with connections at a rehab centre, but there are roughly three main events that reward Vincent for his patience, but they\u2019re deliberately separated by more routine and minimal emotional interaction, making Disorder<\/strong> a bit of a challenge for action & suspense fans.<\/p>\n

The trailers are packed with money shots and blatant spoilers (including a major jump), but they also present a film that\u2019s more kinetic. Winocour does borrow some visual ideas from Michael Mann\u2019s colour scheme (plus Main Title fonts), including neon-esque colours in the party scene, but amid the slo-mo footage, colourful pools of lights, a rainstorm, and techno-music, it\u2019s also a\u00a0cheat, because it’s all replaced with ordinary daylight and average nighttime shots for the film\u2019s remaining bulk.<\/p>\n

The shock sequences work due to careful editing, and one beautifully choreographed shot implants fear but delays the\u00a0actual jolt until a light\u00a0moment between Vincent, Jessie, and Kevin; the latter character is called by Vincent in for extra support in case of emergency. (Kevin\u2019s arrival also implants a suspicion that he may be the architect of an elaborate plot to wipe out the family.)<\/p>\n

Winocour\u2019s final shot is a bit frustrating because it\u2019s a classic French twist that\u2019s either rooted in reality \u2013 the moment is<\/em> possible, but it also shows a particular negligence on the part of one character \u2013 or Vincent\u2019s mind dreaming up an ideal fantasy to soothe his PTSD-wounded psyche.<\/p>\n

If the suspense seems weak and more than a little implausible, Schoenaerts sells the drama, being completely convincing as a numb soul trying to find a safe and stable room to explode, but he’s prevented from unraveling by his rigid military discipline and sense of duty. Georges Lechaptois\u2019 cinematography is sleek but never flashy, and the electronic score by Gesaffelstein (Mike L\u00e9vy) veers\u00a0into sound design, especially the electronic shrill and radio wave distortion that irritates Vincent; Winocour uses the score\u2019s wavering intensity to signal moments in which Vincent feels emotionally overwhelmed, with even source music from a party coming off as overpowering.<\/p>\n

Thus far, Disorder<\/strong> only exists as a DVD release from IFC, whereas Britain\u2019s Soda offers the film on Blu plus a Q&A with director and actor Schoenaerts, and Winocour\u2019s short films Kitchen<\/strong> (2005), Magic Paris <\/strong>(2007), and Pina Colada<\/strong> (2009).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2017 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Soundtrack Album<\/a>
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\nAmazon.ca<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.com<\/a>\"\" \"\" —\u00a0<\/span> Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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