The new Docu-Film on John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrives

After the preview at the last Venice Film Festival, “One to One: John & Yoko” arrives in Italian theaters from 15 to 21 May, in an exit-event that promises to return all the intensity of an unrepeatable era.

The film, directed by Oscar winner Kevin MacDonald, merges unpublished images and private recordings with the powerful remastered audio of the One to One Benefit Concert, edited by Sean Ono Lennon. The result is a vivid and immersive portrait of the couple, caught at a crucial moment of their artistic and personal life.

“From the beginning I decided that I wouldn't go to look for old men on their death beds to get an anecdote about John Lennon,” said the director. “There is enough material to let them speak for themselves, allowing the public to eavesdrop and making this part of the game.”

We are in the early 70s: John and Yoko leave the United Kingdom for New York, becoming the symbol of an increasingly militant counterculture. Between political activism alongside figures such as Allen Ginsberg and Jerry Rubin, the search for Yoko's daughter, Kyoko, and the paranoia for the interception of the FBI, the documentary offers a look without filters on one of the most iconic couples in the history of music.

In their small apartment, faithfully reconstructed for the film, television is the only contact with the outside world: the images of the war in Vietnam, the first shadows of the toilet, fragments of an America in turmoil flow. To stop the flow, advertising jingles loaded with an artificial light -heartedness, forced smiles that cannot hide the discontent of a company on the verge of the revolt.