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‘Bono: Stories Of Surrender’ Review: U2 Frontman Reveals Tales Of Love And Loss In Funny, Poignant, Diverting Documentary
'Bono: Stories of Surrender' review: the U2 rock star gets personal in Apple doc, reflecting on loss of his mother and fraught relationship with dad.
But his impressive gift of language shines in the new documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, directed by Andrew Dominik, which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section. “I was born with an eccentric heart,” he notes wryly near the beginning of the film – an iteration of his one-man show at New York’s Beacon Theatre, which in turn grew out of his 2022 memoir, Bono: 40 Songs, One Story. One time, Bono tells us, he turned that opening question on his Da, only for his father to respond that indeed something strange and startling was happening – he had been diagnosed with cancer and thus found himself residing in life’s “departure lounge.”
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