Writer-director Alice Winocour has described this tense tale of a soldier back from Afghanistan serving as security detail in the home of a wealthy Lebanese businessman as a chance to make “a genre movie” in an “area usually strictly reserved for men”. Matthias Schoenaerts is the PTSD-afflicted Vincent through whose paranoid eyes and hair-trigger responses we experience the unfolding narrative. Diane Kruger is the businessman’s trophy wife, left at home by her shifty husband in whose absence Vincent becomes her paid-for protector. With early hints of both Sliver and Someone to Watch Over Me, Disorder (originally entitled Maryland) develops into something more intriguing thanks in large measure to a brilliant expressionist soundtrack by Mike Lévy (aka Gesaffelstein), which does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to dramatising Vincent’s head-pounding state of mind.
