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Mr. Jones (2019)

Biography | 141 minutes (Festival) / 119 minutes (bioscoopversie)
2,97 72 votes

Genre: Biography / Drama

Duration: 141 minuten (Festival) / 119 minuten (bioscoopversie)

Alternative title: Obywatel Jones

Country: Poland / United Kingdom / Ukraine

Directed by: Agnieszka Holland

Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby and Peter Sarsgaard

IMDb score: 6,9 (17.520)

Releasedate: 25 October 2019

Mr. Jones plot

"The truth can't be hidden forever"

The 1930s. We follow Welsh journalist Gareth Jones as he investigates the Holodomor, a famine caused by the government. Jones is assisted by Ada Brooks, a New York Times reporter. Jones has to avoid covering everything up several times and in the meantime meets the young George Orwell.

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blurp194

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Another piece of relatively recent history that we actually know nothing about. Pushed away by the events of WW2 that came afterwards, and well, it was in another country a long way away. Or censored out due to bad intentions, even now. In any case, the cover-up was working overtime at the time, and that still happens quite often now - after all, the government of most countries does not live by the motto 'honesty is the best policy'. And similar things still happen today - just think of the poor Uyghurs.

Whether the film is so good and interesting apart from the subject, meh - in any case the interaction between Jones and Orwell is interesting. I didn't really know about that either. And it is certainly a beautiful picture of the times, and it also provides an image - albeit less than beautiful - of the early years of the Soviet Union. Capitalism may not be everything, but communism remains a difficult ideal that cannot be achieved in practice.

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BBarbie

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Director Agnieszka Holland usually guarantees catchy films, often about people who are oppressed. In this shocking docudrama she tells the story of Gareth Jones, the journalist who reported first-hand the colossal famine (with millions of victims) in Ukraine in the early 1930s. The middle section in which the famine is depicted is astonishing. In fact, this also applies to the manipulations to discredit Jones' story because of “higher importance”.

Not an absolute winner, but I am still a bit shocked by the mediocre ratings on this forum. Oh, irony.

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Movsin

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Good, fascinating and interesting, this film based on a true event by Agnieszka Holland.

I was familiar with what happened in the Soviet countries, but the figure of freelancer Jones, who opened the eyes of the West by proclaiming the truth, is completely new.

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