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Mr. Jones

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Original title: Mr. Jones
Year: 2019
Running time: 114 min.
Country: Poland
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Screenwriter: Andrea Serdaru Barbul
Music: Antoni Lazarkiewicz
Cinematography: Tomasz Naumiuk
Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham, Michalina Olszanska, Beata Pozniak, Celyn Jones, Richard Elfyn, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Edward Wolstenholme, Christopher Bloswick, Oleh Drach, Patricia Volny, Julian Lewis Jones, Billy HollandSee 6 More
Producer: Co-production Poland-United Kingdom-Ukraine;
Film Produkcja, Crab Apple Films, Film.ua, Studio Orka, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, Kinorob
Genre: Drama. Thriller | Based On A True Story. Journalism. Biography. 1930s
Synopsis: This thriller based on real events, set on the eve of world WWII, sees Hitler’s rise to power and Stalin’s Soviet Union propaganda machine pushing their “utopia” to the Western world. Meanwhile an ambitious young British journalist, Gareth Jones (James Norton) travels to Moscow to uncover the truth behind the propaganda, but then gets a tip that could expose an international conspiracy, one that could cost him and his informant their lives. Jones goes on a life-or-death journey to uncover the truth behind the façade that would later inspire George Orwell’s seminal book Animal Farm.

Rankings Position

#116 Best Polish Movies of all time

Awards: 2019: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection

Critics' reviews

"[A] suitably absorbing but somewhat stuffy biopic (...) What should be an urgent political thriller proceeds at a bit of a trudge"

Guy Lodge: Variety
"A mighty drama jammed inside one that's overstuffed and frustrating (...) [The] riveting core story is bookended by anesthetizing bloat, in a densely cluttered treatment"

David Rooney: The Hollywood Reporter
"Exasperatingly scattershot for most of its long running time, this restless and misshapen film suggests its director’s nagging discomfort with a straightforward history lesson"

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"[It] turns Jones’s fascinating (...) life story as an intrepid reporter into a disorganized mélange of genres (...) And yet, Holland’s film manages to get under one’s skin on the whole (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Tomris Laffly: rogerebert.com
"[Holland] is saddled with a rookie script by Andrea Chalupa that can’t make up its mind about what story it wants to tel"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"An effective and harrowing period drama, one that you may struggle to shake off for some time."

Jade Budowski: Decider
"The central story packs enough weight, both narratively and emotionally, to make this essential for outlets on the cusp of art-house and quality mainstream."

Jonathan Romney: Screendaily
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