2007 · musical · drama · romance
Across the Universe (2007)
Directed by Julie Taymor2h 13m2007
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
Our read: Across the Universe (2007) (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive musical · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured musical / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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