Gareth Johns premiere: how the press reacted to Holodomor

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The main editions of the world are discussing the premiere of the Polish-British-Ukrainian joint movie "Mr. Jones" ("Gareth Jones") at the famous Berlin Film Festival. The thought of critics and specialized editions is divided from epithets of approval to critics sometimes quite severe.

The historical thriller "Mr. Jones" is a true story of the young British journalist Gareth Jones, Holodomor's witness in Ukraine in 1933 [19659007] He went to the USSR, saw the famine with his own eyes and informed the world. However, his publications did not pay attention. What seemed at first sight a routine journalistic investigation turned into a fatal journey.

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The director of the film was at the head of the European Film Academy, nominated for the Oscar and BAFTA Agnieszka Holland. The lead roles in the film were performed by James Norton (War and Peace, Happy Valley, McMuffy), Vanessa Kirby ("Crown", "Mission Impossible: Folute") and Ukrainian actors.

"Ode to Journalism and the Quest The Truth"

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The specialized edition of Filmuforia calls the film "an exciting film with crazy charm with a dynamic plot".

"The film was shot in Poland, Scotland (not in Wales) and in original places in snow-covered Ukraine, but scenes from Barry's encounter between Johns and his The Scenario and the The most insightful dialogues of our father, Chulapi, bear witness to a strong English emotion, a remarkable achievement that Agneshka Holland transforms into an extremely enthusiastic experience that breaks out in spite of more than two hours of film. "

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The authoritative British edition of Guardian thinks that Holland is a "powerful drama" about "a Welsh journalist who actually existed and revealed Stalin's genocidal famine in Ukraine." orphanage in Ukraine.He has a true story, a story insufficiently told, and the only convincing and sympathetic character to tell this story. It's a ribbon with a lot of details that hit, "concludes the Guardian

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According to Variety, "a truth seeker, the anti-Soviet journalist Gareth Jones convinces by ups and downs too long biopiku Agnieszka Holland." "The powerful contemporary resonance of this story, based on the true threats of "false information" and its devastating effects, do not need explanation. "Mr. Jones has trouble perceiving it as a drama, but the message of the film still clearly reaches purpose," – summarizes the publication.

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The popular German newspaper Tagesspiegel calls the film "an exquisite form" a psychological drama.

"Unlike the tragedy-anarchic revenge" Track of the Beast ", presented in Berlin 2017," Gareth Jones "is a classic dramaturgy of sensational effects (a large ferry connecting Moscow to great shots, telephone lines crossing secret services intercepting conversations), chic furniture and powerful architectural structures Babylone-Moscow: the frivolous parties in the Soviet capital contrast sharply with the suffering in Ukraine, where, finally, the director abandons the flavor enhancers but knows the border from Holodomor. and white n the dark winter landscape, as if they themselves were traumatized, "writes the newspaper.

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  "This is a film of the Holodomor, called genocide of Ukrainians, a massive famine that caused millions of deaths in the early 1930s and was caused by despotism from any of them.Man – Stalin, "- adds the publication.

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  British authoritative and Times severely criticized the film. According to the publication, taken from the frame "Shoots Despair".

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  "The Ukrainian genocide from 1932 to 1933, the sources of the Second World War and the challenges of journalism in the early twentieth century are fatal themes that, in a way, by the negative alchemy of poor production. cinematographic, have been slowed down in this chaotic and amateurish narrative.

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  Independent British publication IndieWire calls the tape "disordered biographical film" and "unorganized negro".

  " Dramatically spontaneous during the majority "This fugue, this agitated and formless film alludes to the painful discomfort of the director that she feels from this unpretentious history lesson, from indecision about the revelation of the scenario to the unpredictable way with which Jones's peripatical journey moves from genre to genre, the Dutch film rarely has enough patience,

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  According to the Berliner Zeitung, the Polish director's "search for the truth" is worth three out of five stars. "Agnieszka Holland, who once tried to seduce Arthur Browner and Hollywood, for its truly breathtaking drama about the Holocaust, does not turn into a banality that this chronic dreadful destruction can be told by a regular reporter film" , writes the newspaper. "But in an attempt to capture the inconceivable, the director finds nothing better than to demonize opponents to Jones, whose narrative model of an alarming historical reconstruction has long been in crisis."

  The German specialist publisher Critic called the film "impotent pathos of truth".

  "Let's get to the truth!" In his new film "Gareth Jones", Agnieszka Holland traces the lost life of a journalist who has changed the course of history, "writes the newspaper.

  Journal authored by Ilya Gluschenkov, Air Force Monitoring Service

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