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One to One: John & Yoko Cuts Through the Beatles-Industrial Complex
Built around Lennon and Ono’s 1972 concert at Madison Square Garden — John’s last — the film presents a powerful look at their activism.
Intercutting swift glimpses of news reports, commercials, television shows, contemporaneous interviews, and recently unearthed telephone conversations, MacDonald, along with co-director and editor Sam Rice-Edwards, gives us a whirlwind journey through what these two artists might have seen and experienced as they attempted to navigate the cultural and political upheaval of their times. Footage of a boyish John performing in some of Yoko’s installations feels at times like a wide-eyed kid at school discovering a new world of activism and experimentation with his cool, artsy, experienced new girlfriend. Ono’s wailing, thundering rendition of “Don’t Worry Kyoko” at the One to One concert is among the film’s highlights, as is her later performance of “Looking Over From My Hotel Window” at a feminist conference, played out over pixelated black-and-white video footage of her and John, a misty reverie that hints at the loss to come.
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