The UK release date for celebrated filmmaker Kevin MacDonald’s new documentary One To One: John & Yoko has been revealed by Dogwoof. According to an official press release, the film will hit cinemas on 11th April.
On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon played his only full-length show after leaving The Beatles, the One to One benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, a rollicking, dazzling performance from him and Yoko Ono. Macdonald’s riveting documentary takes that legendary musical event and uses it as the starting point to explore eighteen defining months in the lives of John and Yoko. By 1971 the couple was newly arrived in the United States— living in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village and watching a huge amount of American television. The film uses a riotous mélange of American TV to conjure the era through what the two would have been seeing on the screen: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Cronkite, The Waltons. As they experience a year of love and transformation in the US, John and Yoko begin to change their approach to protest — ultimately leading to the One to One concert, which was inspired by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV.
The film has its premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival. Ahead of the 11th April release, there will be exclusive IMAX presentations on the two days preceding the main release.
One To One: John & Yoko is directed by Kevin Macdonald, edited & co-directed by Sam Rice-Edwards and produced by Peter Worsley, Kevin Macdonald and Alice Webb with Marc Robinson, David Joseph, Steve Condie, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner as executive producers.
A trailer will no doubt follow.
