One to One: John & Yoko (2024)

Directed by

Sam Rice-Edwards, Kevin Macdonald

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

R

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The documentary follows John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the early 1970s when they lived in a Greenwich Village apartment. It shows their response to political events of the time including the Vietnam War and culminates in their benefit concert for disabled children.

archivalbittersweetnostalgicintimatereflectivepoliticalhopeful

What happens

One to One: John & Yoko is a 2024 documentary film co-directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards. The film follows the couple of years which John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent in a Greenwich Village apartment while also tracing developments in American politics like the presidency of Richard Nixon and opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. It is centered around Lennon and Ono's "One to One" benefit concert for the children at Willowbrook. Sean Ono Lennon, son of Lennon and Ono, oversaw audio mastering for the concert footage. The film was announced on May 29, 2024. It later premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2024 and was followed with showings at the Telluride Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival with distribution by Mercury Studios. On January 21, 2025, Magnolia Pictures announced their acquisition of North American rights for the film, after which they announced an April 11 release date in IMAX theaters, as well as plans for streaming releases later in the year. In the United Kingdom, it would be released in IMAX on April 9, 2025 before also being released to regular cinemas on April 11. It would open in non-IMAX theaters in the United States on April 18, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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