Not since Moulin Rouge! I have anticipated a movie musical sooo much, but if anyone could make me feel excited about one, that anyone would be director Julie Taymor (Broadway’s The Lion King, Frida).Across the Universe is a romantic musical told mainly through numerous Beatles songs performed by the characters.
In the film, Jude (newcomer Jim Sturgess), a young lad from Liverpool, comes to America during the Vietnam War to find his father. He winds up in Greenwich Village, where he falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), an American girl who has grown up sheltered in the suburbs.
Together, Lucy and Jude experience the sweeping changes of America in the late 60s, in a film that promises to be an inspired spectacle.
Across the Universe opens on Sept. 28.
Photo: Sony Pictures.
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