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‘An incredible echo of today’: Kevin Macdonald on his film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono
The director speaks about his documentary exploring the couple’s life after moving to New York in 1971
From sit-ins for peace to avant-garde happenings and covert surveillance of revolutionary sympathies, the world of John Lennon and Yoko Ono can seem removed from that of our own.
But a new documentary about the couple exposes the eerie similarities between the 70s and now, the Oscar-winning director behind the film has said.
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