Stories of Surrender (2025)

Original title

Bono: Stories of Surrender

Directed by

Andrew Dominik

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows Bono during a 2023 one-man stage show in New York City. He recites passages from his memoir and performs stripped-down versions of U2 songs.

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What happens

Bono: Stories of Surrender is a 2025 American documentary film about the Irish musician Bono, directed by Andrew Dominik. The film documents a 2023 performance by Bono at the Beacon Theatre in New York City during his one-man stage show "Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief...", which was undertaken to promote his 2022 memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. The performance features Bono reciting and acting out passages from his book and performing U2 songs in stripped-down arrangements. The film had its world premiere at the Special Screenings section of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2025, where it received a seven-minute standing ovation. It was released on Apple TV+ on May 30, 2025, as both a standard 2D film and an Apple Immersive Video for the Apple Vision Pro headset, making it the first feature-length film to be released in the format. Preceding the film's release, an abridged version of Bono's memoir that follows the narrative arc of the film was released in paperback, also under the title Bono: Stories of Surrender. An EP of the same name with live performances of three songs accompanied the film's release on May 30. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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