''Disorder'' (french: Maryland) is a 2015 French-Belgian

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directed by Alice Winocour about a home invasion, starring

Matthias Schoenaerts Matthias Schoenaerts (; ; born 8 December 1977) is a Belgian actor. He made his film debut at the age of 13 in '' Daens'' (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He is best known for his roles as Filip in ...

as an ex-soldier with

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. It was screened in competition in the

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section at the

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Plot

Vincent (

), is an ex-soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after returning from Afghanistan. He is hired to protect the wife of a wealthy businessman while he's out of town, at their luxurious villa, Maryland, on the French Riviera.

Cast

as Vincent *

Diane Kruger Diane Kruger ( Heidkrüger; ; born 15 July 1976) is a German and American actress. Early in her career, Kruger gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival. Kruger became known for her roles in ...

as Jessie * Paul Hamy as Denis * Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant as Ali * Percy Kemp as Imad Whalid * Mickaël Daubert as Kévin * Franck Torrecillas as Franck

Production

On 1 October 2014, ''

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'' reported that Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger would co-star in the film directed by Alice Winocour. Filming began on the

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on 15 October 2014. Most of the film takes place in the Domaine la Dilecta at the Cape of Antibes. The beach scenes were shot at the Plage de Passable in

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (; oc, Sant Joan de Cap Ferrat; Italian: ''San Giovanni Capo Ferrato'') is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2017, it had a population of 1,573 ...

. A car chase scene was shot in

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on 14 November 2014. Production was completed on 11 December 2014.

Release

''Disorder'' premiered at the

in the

section on 16 May 2015, and was released in France and Belgium on 30 September 2015. Sundance Selects bought the film three days after its Cannes premiere. The film was screened in the Gala Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. A trailer was released on 25 July 2015, and the poster was released on 30 July 2015.

Reception

''Disorder'' received generally positive reviews from critics, especially for

' performance. On

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, the film has a rating of 73%, based on 80 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Well-acted and solidly crafted, ''Disorder (Maryland)'' relies on patiently established slow-burning tension to set the stage for an intelligent, intimate psychological thriller." On

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, the film has a score of 66 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". ''

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''s critic Guy Lodge wrote: Writing for

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, Kim Newman gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, writing that "Director-writer Alice Winocour’s simmering thriller/character study is like a ''Transporter'' film directed by Chantal Akerman, with superb work from Matthias Schoenaerts as a buttoned-down, paranoid ex-soldier who senses evil forces in every shadow…"

Accolades

Soundtrack

Mike Lévy, better known as

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, produced a full-length musical score for this film. The soundtrack was released on 24 September 2015, as a limited release of 1,000 copies.

Remake

On 15 September 2016, ''Deadline'' reported that

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had been hired by

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and

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to script the American remake of ''Disorder''. Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Tony Shaw were said to be producing the remake and David Beaubaire overseeing it for the studio.

James Mangold James Allen Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for the films ''Cop Land'' (1997), '' Girl, Interrupted'' (1999), ''Walk the Line'' (2005), '' 3:10 to Yuma'' (2007), '' The Wolverine'' (2013) and '' Logan'' ...

was named as the director.

References

External links

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