Orwell: 2+2=5

Raoul Peck channels the clarity and urgency of George Orwell's prose into a gripping cinematic statement - elegant, forceful and uncompromising.

Shaped by Alexandra Strauss's electric editing of archival footage, newsreels and photos, Raoul Peck's film lends Orwell's prescient observations renewed urgency. Orwell's words, read aloud by Damian Lewis, feel sharp, invigorating and unsettling, echoing through a fractured present and becoming a clarion call for an examination of the mechanics of power, propaganda and systemic violence.