The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.
Co-writer/Director: Julie Taymor
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/
Watched online, good print.
33 songs in the Soundtracks, all written by Beatles, mostly John Lennon and Paul McCartney, a few by George Harrison, all performed by cast members, including some cameo rockers.
I can understand why people like this. It's creative, with good use of the songs, seamlessly providing exposition for the images, which are also very creative.
But I have no nostalgia for the period, nor for the music. Actually, I have an aversion to the Vietnam era, so I hesitated watching this at all.
Dir. JT (b. '52) also provided the creative masks & puppets in the opera Oedipus Rex ('93) that I found interesting, and the B'way musical of The Lion King.
Rated 7.4 (100,470)
distr. Buena Vista, dir. Taymor; 6-
