“The Order”, an interview with director Justin Kurzel

Australian director Justin Kurzel, famed for the 2015 Palme d’Or contender “Macbeth and True History of the Kelly Gang” (2018), amongst others, most recently saluted in competition in Cannes for “Nitram” (2021), which owed his actor Caleb Landry Jones an interpretation prize in Cannes, tells us more “The Order“, premiered in competition in Venice, which just opened the 21st edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival, where the director is also a guest of the masterclass section Conversations.

The Jude Law-starrer, based on the non-fiction book “The Silent Brotherhood“ by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt (1989), also produced by the British actor, is Kurzel’s first U.S.-set feature, and this time, rather than depict retrospectively the genealogy of a rampage, it deals with a neo-nazi organisatio