Tag: Orwell world premiere Cannes
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Headed to Toronto International Film Festival
– TIFF 50 – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)’s documentary programs get underway and will feature 23 docs from 18 countries. The festival runs from September 4-14, 2025, celebrating the best of Canadian and global cinema. Making its North American debut at TIFF is Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Acquired in Several Deals
– Buzzy Cannes Debut – by Melanie Goodfellow | Deadline | May 23, 2025 Goodfellas has unveiled a first round of deals for Raoul Peck’s documentary Orwell: 2+2=5, exploring the contemporary resonance of George Orwell’s work, following its well-received world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. In Europe, the work has been acquired for France (Le…
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The Best Documentary I’ve Seen at Cannes
by Sam Adams | Slate Magazine | May 21, 2025 – Dazzling and Terrifying – The best documentary I’ve seen at Cannes, political or otherwise, is Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5, which interweaves a personal portrait of the author with a wide-ranging exploration of how his ideas are playing out in the current world. Ending with a…
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Raoul Peck’s Brilliant Orwell: 2+2=5 Is the Boldest Documentary Anyone Could Make Right Now
– Blazingly Forthright – by Stephanie Zacharek | Times Magazine | May 19, 2025 Raoul Peck is one of our most valuable documentary filmmakers. Instead of just presenting us with information, he shows us ways of seeing, inspiring us to look for patterns and connections we might not have seen otherwise. That’s the principle at work in his…
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Damian Lewis Attends Orwell Photocall at Cannes Film Festival
– Orwell: 2+2=5 – Damian was back on the red carpet for a second time on day six of the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival held at Palais des Festivals et des Congrès on Sunday, May 18, 2025 in Cannes, France. He posed during a photocall for the film Orwell: 2+2=5, a documentary in which…
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‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’ Review: Raoul’s Peck’s Vital Film Shows How We’re Living In A ‘1984’-Style Dystopia
– An Urgent, Indispensable Film For Our Times – by Matthew Carey | Deadline | May 17, 2025 When I was growing up, the lessons of George Orwell‘s Dystopian novel 1984 were thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his people, punishing dissenters. If that had been correct,…
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‘Orwell 2 + 2 = 5’ Review: A Chilling Examination of How Much the Nightmare of ‘1984’ Has Come True
– Lewis is an Excellent Narrator – by Wilson Chapman | IndieWire | May 17, 2025 Raoul Peck’s essay film about the creation of “1984” uses George Orwell’s words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X (then Twitter) to declare…
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‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: Raoul Peck’s Dynamic Look at Big Brother and Other Tyrants
– Poignant and Galvanizing – by Sheri Linden | The Hollywood Reporter | May 17, 2025 A documentary by the director of films on James Baldwin and Karl Marx explores the life of George Orwell and the enduring significance of his most famous work, ‘1984.’ George Orwell himself has gone in and out of favor over…