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.

Prior to the screening Jude Law, looking dashing in a black shirtless suit, took selfies with fans on the Palazzo del Cinema red carpet.

Law was glowing as he and director Kurzel and co-stars Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett enjoyed the rapturous seven-minute applause.

It 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.

As a result, he realizes 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.

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.

“On January 6, 2021, nooses were hung in front of the Capitol Building imitating a fictional insurrection from the 1970’s novel ‘The Turner Diaries,’ the first master plan for domestic terrorism in America,” is how Kurzel, in a statement, has underlined the film’s current relevance. The director calls “The Order” “a manhunt into the depths of that hate, a foreshadowing of a divided America, a warning shot of what has been and what may come.”

Law was previously in Venice for “The Young Pope” satirical series in 2016, while Hoult has been attending the festival off and on since one of his first big screen roles, 2009’s “A Simple Man” alongside Colin Firth.