John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s love story — and love affair with New York — will get a close-up within the first trailer for “One to One: John & Yoko.”
The upcoming documentary from Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald captures the couple of their post-Beatles early days in NYC within the early ‘70s, following them as they transfer into an condo in Greenwich Village.
The clip begins with Lennon calling for a person named Howard, and the lady who solutions the telephone begins to spell out his title earlier than recognizing who it’s.
“You’re a member of The Beatles?” she says. “That’s right, yeah,” he replies.
A cereal-eating Lennon then says, “Good morning, folks. Have you had your breakfast yet?”
As photographs of Lennon and Ono flash by — together with them elevating their fists because the Statue of Liberty looms within the horizon — Ono says, “The Flower Generation is over, but we can start all over again, right?”
Then because the pair are consuming on a park bench, Lennon says, “I just got to see the Village for the first time. I really feel at home there.”
As extra uncommon and restored footage rolls — together with some beforehand unseen materials from their private archives, together with house films filmed by the couple — Ono displays, “I was considered a bitch in this society. Since I met John, I was upgraded into a witch.”
“I fell in love with an independent creative genius,” Lennon shares about his spouse. “I started waking up.”
“One to One” takes its title from the 2 free concert events that Lennon and Ono held at Madison Sq. Backyard in August 1972. The movie chronicles the buildup to the all-star reveals — additionally that includes units by Stevie Marvel, Sha Na Na and Roberta Flack — which benefited kids with particular wants.
When requested by a reporter why they’d do concert events without spending a dime, Lennon responds, “to change the apathy that all the youth have. To speak to them, to sing to them, and do anything to get them alive again. Viva la revolution!”
They’d develop into the one full-length concert events that Lennon and Ono would ever play. And fittingly the music from the historic reveals was produced by their son, Sean Ono Lennon.
Then as “Imagination” performs on the finish, Lennon is requested “How would you like to be remembered?” He replies, “Just as two lovers.”
“One to One: John & Yoko” will open solely in IMAX on April 11 earlier than a wider theatrical launch on April 18, after which it is going to stream later this yr on Max.
