Altitude Films have dropped the official UK Trailer for Raoul Peck‘s ORWELL 2+2=5.
Narrated by Damian Lewis, ORWELL 2+2=5 is all about the Peck‘s fascination with English author George Orwell. A fascinating look at the writer’s onlook at how society will end up. Orwell did predict some things have eerily have happened or in the process becoming reality.
The present is a fascinating but also terrifying place, should we be looking more at George Orwell‘s writings? or other writers who share a similar dystopic look? The filmmaker shares also a lot of connections with Orwell as well as what’s going on now.
Synopsis | George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, all-to-believable authoritarian future. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck (Academy Award-nominated I Am Not Your Negro), working in collaboration with the Orwell Estate, seamlessly interweaves historical clips, readings from Orwell’s diary, cinematic references, and dynamic modern day footage to craft not only a definitive portrait of the writer himself, but an entirely fresh take on how remarkably relevant and prophetic his work has become. Peck doesn’t just present the information but shows new ways of seeing it, drawing patterns and connections we might not otherwise realize, championing Orwell as a man from the past who just might hold the key to the world’s future.
ORWELL 2+2=5 will get a UK and Irish cinema release on 27th March. The film will also make it’s Scottish premiere at Glasgow Film Festival on 2nd March [ more info/ book].
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