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Newly arrived in the United States, from 1971-73 John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village, where they consumed an enormous amount of television and in the process developed a new form of protest.
This led to the legendary ‘One to One’ benefit concert held at Madison Square Garden in August 1972 to raise funds for Willowbrook, an institution in Staten Island for children with intellectual disabilities. This landmark performance was Lennon’s only full-length, post-Beatles concert. The film features remastered and restored footage and audio from the show, alongside video and audio recordings from the period, tracking the development of Lennon and Ono’s politicization against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration.
Directed by legendary documentarian and filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, The Mauritanian), the film is an immersive and intimate tribute to one of music’s most famous couples.