Jude Law lit up the Lido with his powerful performance as an FBI agent fighting neo-Nazi terrorists in Justin Kurzel‘s timely crime thriller “The Order” that elicited a seven-minute standing ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere.
Prior to the screening Jude Law, looking dashing in a black shirtless suit, took selfies with screaming fans on the Palazzo del Cinema red carpet.
When the lights went up, Law was glowing as he and director Kurzel and co-stars Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett soaked up the rapturous seven-minute applause, which could have lasted longer had they not exited the theatre waving to the still cheering crowd.
Based on true events, the film is set in 1983 Idaho and sees a lone FBI agent follow a series of increasingly violent bank robberies and car heists, coming to realize that they’re the work of a group of dangerous domestic neo-Nazi terrorists, inspired by the radical leader Robert Jay Mathews, played by Hoult, that are plotting a war against the U.S. government.
“The Order,” which is an adaptation of the 1989 book “The Silent Brotherhood” by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, also stars Sheridan, Smollett, Alison Oliver and Odessa Young.
Earlier in the day at the film’s press conference, Law spoke about the importance of the film at a time when far-right ideologies are rising again.
