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One to One: John & Yoko

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7.4/10 • 11

2025-04-111h 44m

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A war of love and transformation.

An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples — John Lennon and Yoko Ono — spent living in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the early 1970s.

Directors
Kevin Macdonald
Editors
Sam Rice-Edwards

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  1. John Lennon

    John Lennon

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Yoko Ono

    Yoko Ono

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Stan Bronstein

    Stan Bronstein

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Dick Cavett

    Dick Cavett

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Charlie Chaplin

    Charlie Chaplin

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Shirley Chisholm

    Shirley Chisholm

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Kyoko Ono Cox

    Kyoko Ono Cox

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Walter Cronkite

    Walter Cronkite

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Mike Douglas

    Mike Douglas

    Self (archive footage)

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CinemaSerf

Apr 16, 2025

7/10

This is quite an eye-opening documentary that uses the 1972 “One to One” concert that John and Yoko did to raise funds for the infamous Willowbrook hospital - where the appalling treatment of kids with learning difficulties turned heads and stomachs in equal measure, to shine a light on Nixon’s United States. Using an astonishing collection of archive of not just this couple, but of newsreels and television content, Kevin Macdonald presents a pretty galling indictment of a society riddled with racism, homophobia and ignorance against a backdrop of a flower power movement determined to stop the war in Vietnam. I suppose Jerry Rubin would have been called an agitator by the authorities, with his vocal and vociferous criticism of all things government, and his relationship with the Lennon’s is also under a spotlight of scrutiny that led to their threatened deportation. By the end of this, and after Nixon’s landslide victory in the election, it isn’t hard to see why the administration wanted shot of the pair - though that might have had more to do with her terrible singing than with his determination to turns weapons into plant pots and release all prisoners. It is still quite a resonating position even now when the naïveté of their grand design appeals on a superficial level but never delivers adequate enough solutions for the general population who still tend to believe what they are told by the folks they vote for, and obviously the timeframe of this feature is well before the full impact of “Watergate” kicks in rather torpedoes that faith. I could have done with more music, and perhaps a little more from the pair about his leaving the “Beatles” and of her own subsequent vilification from just about everyone, but this is still an illuminating look at a society struggling to emerge from the 1960s, showing the simultaneous power and the impotence of protest, and is worth a watch.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
new york city1970s