1984

A timely adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian political satire, where lowly bureaucrat Winston Smith fatefully falls for fellow party member Julia, a secret subversive against the stifling political system.

Michael Radford's brilliant film of Orwell's vision does a good job of finding that line between the future world of 1984 and the grim postwar world in which Orwell wrote.

Great liberties were taken with the story written by Orwell and published in 1949...