Orwell 2+2=5
Blending biography and history with a discursive exploration of totalitarianism past and present, Raoul Peck’s ORWELL 2+2=5 counterbalances his poetic tendencies with pointed emphasis on relevant current events. George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, is overdue for a fresh look and filmmaker Raoul Peck makes for an incisive and stirring guide. Peck has long put great writers at the center of his work, most notably in his Oscar-nominated documentary I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO about James Baldwin. This film opens us to a wider range of his writing that drew from his personal experience of poverty in Paris and London, of colonialism in Burmese Days and of revolutionary uprising in Homage to Catalonia. Using film footage from multiple adaptations of Orwell's books, Peck layers in contemporary news and documentary footage to evoke the alarming rise of totalitarianism, surveillance and government violence in our present day. It’s both conversely reassuring and frightening to see how much analysis Orwell brought to what we’re experiencing today.DocumentaryPT1H59MR2025-10-17Damian Lewis
Raoul Peck
Alex Gibney
Raoul Peck
Nick Shumaker
George Chignell
Orwell 2+2=5"Orwell 2+2=5"Showtimes
October 17, 4:45 pm
October 18, 1:30 pm
October 18, 5:15 pm
October 19, 3:45 pm
October 20, 1:30 pm
October 20, 6:30 pm
October 21, 6:30 pm
October 22, 4:00 pm
October 23, 4:00 pm
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