Across the Universe

Director: Julie Taymor

2007 / 133min / DCP

Centered on songs by the Beatles, Taymor’s romantic jukebox musical re-imagines America in the turbulent late 1960s through the eyes of young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess), who leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the US, where he falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a rich but sheltered American girl, and finds himself swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation, including the growing anti-war movement in Greenwich Village. As political tensions spiral, the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

Post-screening conversation with director Julie Taymor and production designer Mark Friedberg.