Orwell: 2+2=5

Raoul Peck revisits the last year of George Orwell's life, during the writing of 1984, and illustrates it in the light of reality. He delivers a dense, urgent and uncompromising docudrama on the rise of totalitarianism and the social conditions that make it possible. Across different eras and countries, he dissects tyranny and its appeal, drawing on television clips that vividly illustrate its mechanisms, such as disinformation, conspiracies and dehumanisation.

A dense and concise docu-fiction, whose exemplary fluidity is accompanied by masterfully complex editing.

The accuracy of Orwell's reflections borders on prescience.

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