Across the Universe

Re-Meet the Beatles Through the Voices of a New Narrative

FOR most anybody who was over 12 and under 30 in 1964, the sound of the Beatles is immutably fixed in the brain, parked somewhere near the Pledge of Allegiance and two plus two makes four. With the opening on Friday of Julie Taymor’s new movie, “Across the Universe,” expect many of those brain cells to be all shook up.
Call it a jukebox musical, or a rock opera, or a long-playing music video. All those labels fit — and don’t. Ms. Taymor’s essentially unclassifiable film puts Beatles songs in the mouths, and sometimes in the heads, of newly invented characters just living their lives. [...]

di Sylviane Gold, articolo completo (11108 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 9 settembre 2007