Magnolia Pictures released a preview for the new documentary ‘One to One: John & Yoko,’ which covers an 18-month span in the lives of iconic couple John Lennon and Yoko Ono together in Greenwich Village. Lennon and Ono’s son, Sean Ono Lennon, produced the music and served as an executive producer, with Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald as director.
The film was shot in an apartment designed to look like the one the couple shared in 1971 New York. Lennon’s voice says in the clip: “I fell in love with an independent creative genius. I started waking up.”
The documentary will examine the couple’s One to One benefit concert in 1972, Lennon’s only full-length concert following his departure from the Beatles. When someone asks Lennon in the preview “Why would you do a concert for free?” Lennon says: “To change that apathy that all the youth have. Speak to them, sing to them and do anything to get them alive again.”
An official synopsis reads: “The film uses a riotous melange of American TV to conjure the era through what the two would have been seeing on the screen: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Cronkite, The Waltons. As they experience a year of love and transformation in the US, John and Yoko begin to change their approach to protest — ultimately leading to the One to One concert, which was inspired by a Geraldo Rivera expose they watched on TV.”
One to One: John & Yoko will open in theaters on April 18, with IMAX showings beginning April 11. Check out the preview- HERE.
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