Director – Raoul Peck – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 119m ****1/2 A primer on the life and work of George Orwell, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four, and its relevance to today’s post-truth world – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th This belongs to the school of documentary which creates a film out of assembling fragments […]
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- Post date March 27 2026
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