'Orwell: 2+2=5' Review: Angry Documentary Is as Much About Us (and Donald Trump) as About George Orwell

For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck's documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5" is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel "1984" and its connections to today's world. The film, which premiered on Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, gives us passages from the author's essays and diaries read by Damian Lewis and shown over bucolic aerial shots of the Scottish island of Jura, where Orwell wrote his classic 1948 novel about a future society in which the government, personified as an all-powerful Big Brother, freely lies to its . . .