Euronews Culture speaks to Australian director Justin Kurzel at Marrakech International Film Festival about his latest feature The Order.
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00:00Now in every revolution, someone has to fire the first shot.
00:07Open the safe, now! Now!
00:09Let's go!
00:14Sheriff Laughlin, Terry Husk.
00:16I had a question about some flyers I keep seeing, white power.
00:21It was really interesting making it as a period film,
00:23and as we were writing it and then editing it and then shooting it,
00:27sorry, shooting it and editing it,
00:30it started to have a much more alive conversation
00:35with the tone and the temperature of what's going on at the moment.
00:39So I find they're the really unusual stories
00:45that you've got a film that's sort of set in a particular period
00:49that has a bit of distance to now and can have a bit of subjectivity.
00:55You do get something really interesting
00:57in terms of how it sort of comments and plays to today.
01:01So, yeah, look, we made it as a period film,
01:04but there's no doubt that it's definitely having a bit of a conversation with now.
01:09This was in June.
01:10A bomb went off at a synagogue in Boise.
01:13That's just the beginning.
01:15Beginning what?
01:16I just loved him as an actor,
01:18and him and I were sort of talking about the role
01:22and that it was very different from what he'd played before,
01:25and that really excited him and excited me.
01:29I mean, to be on set with an actor that feels quite anxious
01:32and feels like the role's really kind of new to them
01:36is a really nice place to be.
01:38So, yeah, it's just first and foremost a huge fan,
01:41so I hope I get to do some more with Judy.