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‘Bono: Stories of Surrender’ Review: The U2 Legend Finds What He’s Looking for in a Captivating Film of His One-Man Show
In Andrew Dominik's captivating film version of his one-man show, Bono airs his ambition, passion, celebrity, charity, and family demons.
And while the show is honest and engaging, full of confessions and music and inside-the-band anecdotes and other savory tidbits, it all goes down almost a bit too smoothly, without quite hitting you with the force of revelation, since Bono has always had the loquacious talk-show-friendly slightly oversharing quality of an open book. The film version, which premiered at Cannes tonight, was directed by Andrew Dominik(“Blonde”), who has made two documentaries about Nick Cave, and who clearly has an affinity for rock stars who strike the perfect note of postpunk mystique combined with a certain reverence for the call of tradition. And the heady combination of camera angles and editing help to turn that stage into a stylized zone of memory, even as Bono takes pains to defuse any hint of self-seriousness, declaring at the outset that writing a memoir involves “a whole other level of naval-gazing.”
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