ACROSS
THE
UNIVERSE
With
Jim
Sturgess,
Evan
Rachel
Wood,
Joe
Anderson,
Dana
Fuchs,
Martin
Luther,
Joe
Cocker,
Eddie
Izzard,
Bono
Directed
by Julie
Taymor
Across
The
Universe
is a
fascinating
musical,
creating
something
totally
new
from
something
incredibly
familiar.
The
story
of a
young
artist
traveling
from
the
UK to
the
U.S.
to find
his
real
father
in the
late-‘60s
is told
entirely
by means
of Beatles
songs.
He leaves
his
girl
behind
and
does
not
find
the
man
he was
hoping
to find
–
but,
he makes
new
friends
and
meets
the
new
love
of his
life
in a
world
so different
to the
one
he left
behind.
But
this
free,
idealistic
realm
also
gets
dark
- The
turbulent
Vietnam
War
era
is amazingly
illustrated
with
some
incredibly
well
visualized
scenes,
fusing
brilliantly
with
The
Beatles
tunes,
sang
by the
cast.
It leans
towards
movies
like
Hair
and
repaints
the
time
with
fresh
new
strokes,
throwing
in some
trippy
and
well
choreographed
sequences.
Features
musical
cameos
from
Bono,
Joe
Coker
and
Eddie
Izzard.
The
making-of
sheds
a lot
of light
on how
the
entire
production
came
together
and
how
the
makers
approached
it.
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