Following The Beatles’ breakup in 1970, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to Greenwich Village to flee tabloid consideration. That’s the time interval explored within the trailer for the brand new documentary, One to One: John and Yoko. Watch it beneath.
“I fell in love with an unbiased, inventive genius. I began waking up,” Lennon says about Ono after footage of the couple having fun with New York Metropolis is proven. “I actually really feel at house right here.”
Later, the musician discusses his legendary 1972 “One to One” profit live performance at Madison Sq. Backyard, saying he made it free to “change the apathy that youth have” by singing and chatting with them. “I’d do something to get them alive once more,” Lennon provides. “Viva la revolución.”
Coming from The Final King of Scotland director Kevin MacDonald, One to One: John and Yoko accommodates never-before-seen materials and newly restored footage from the live performance. It additionally options newly remixed music from their son, Sean Ono Lennon, who served as government producer on the movie.
Right here’s the official logline:
“On August 30, 1972, in New York Metropolis, John Lennon performed his solely full-length present after leaving The Beatles, the ‘One to One’ profit live performance at Madison Sq. Backyard, a rollicking, dazzling efficiency from him and Yoko Ono… By 1971 the couple was newly arrived in the US — dwelling in a tiny condominium in Greenwich Village and watching an enormous quantity of American tv. The movie makes use of a riotous mélange of American TV to conjure the period via what the 2 would have been seeing on the display screen: the Vietnam Battle, The Value is Proper, Nixon, Coca-Cola adverts, Cronkite, The Waltons. As they expertise a yr of affection and transformation within the US, John and Yoko start to alter their method to protest — finally resulting in the ‘One to One’ live performance, which was impressed by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV.”
One to One: John and Yoko opens in IMAX on April eleventh, with a large launch one week later.
