John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s love story — and love affair with New York — gets a close-up in the first trailer for “One to One: John & Yoko.”The upcoming documentary from Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald captures the couple in their post-Beatles early days in NYC in the early ‘70s, following them as they move into an apartment in Greenwich Village.The clip begins with Lennon calling for a man named Howard, and the woman who answers the phone begins to spell out his name before recognizing who it is.“You’re a member of The Beatles?” she says. “That’s right, yeah,” he replies.A cereal-eating Lennon then says, “Good morning, folks.
Have you had your breakfast yet?”As images of Lennon and Ono flash by — including them raising their fists as the Statue of Liberty looms in the horizon — Ono says, “The Flower Generation is over, but we can start all over again, right?”Then as the pair are eating on a park bench, Lennon says, “I just got to see the Village for the first time.
I really feel at home there.”As more rare and restored footage rolls — including some previously unseen material from their personal archives, including home movies filmed by the couple — Ono reflects, “I was considered a bitch in this society.
Since I met John, I was upgraded into a witch.”“I fell in love with an independent creative genius,” Lennon shares about his wife. “I started waking up.”“One to One” takes its name from the two free concerts that Lennon and Ono held at Madison Square Garden in August 1972.
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