Female Film Critics 24/375
Interest in Ukraine has magnified since Russia invaded the country, but a meaningful documentary like The Earth Is as Blue as an Orange opens a curtain on the country’s past five years. The film shows an ordinary family reframing life with attitude. The family that is the subject of the film refuses to fall victim to constant warfare. A shield of love protects these good people, who see art where others see hell.
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This emotion-charged thriller is the story of Gareth Jones (1905-1935), a Welsh journalist whose dedication to truth in media is
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The great Polish director/writer Agnieszka Holland (In Darkness, Europa Europa) reverses the usual case of a male director telling the story of a courageous woman, to tell the story of a persistent young Welsh journalist in the early 1930s. Mr. Jones tells a truth-based tale about Gareth Jones (James Norton), who uncovers a secret famine in the Ukraine, and whose discoveries reveal the truth about Stalin and help inspire George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
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