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‘An incredible echo of today’: Kevin Macdonald on his film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono
The director speaks about his documentary exploring the couple’s life after moving to New York in 1971
From sit-ins for peace to avant-garde happenings and covert surveillance of revolutionary sympathies, the world of John Lennon and Yoko Ono can seem removed from that of our own. One to One, by Kevin Macdonald, portrays Lennon and Ono’s life over an 18-month period after their move to New York in 1971, when they quickly became figureheads for the counterculture and anti-Vietnam war movements. Photograph: Mondadori Portfolio/Getty ImagesMacdonald, who has directed films including One Day in September, Touching the Void, Whitney, The Last King of Scotland, and The Mauritanian, said the realisation was “strangely reassuring”.
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