The music is all from the Beatles’ catalogue, so it’s guaranteed to be high quality music - the performers also all do very well, some better than others. Lucy becomes involved in the protests, at the expense of her relationship with Jude. The two have a tempestuous relationship, while various social and political events occure as a backdrop to the love story - most notably the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Lucy also moves to New York after learning of her boyfriend’s death and falls for Jude. Max leaves Princeton and with Jude the two move to New York City and immediately settle into an apartment with a bluesy rock singer, Sadie (Dana Fuchs), who guards her place and her brood of tenents like a protective mother hen. Max’s sister, Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood, The Upside of Anger) is his beautiful sister whose boyfriend is leaves for Vietnam. There he meets a rebellious student, Max (Joe Anderson, Copying Beethoven) and the two strike up a friendship. Jude (Jim Sturgess, Mouth to Mouth) leaves his dreary live as a dock worker for America to confront his biological father who left his mother when he was a child, and now works at Princeton University. Set in the 1960’s, the story opens in Liverpool.
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE CAST MOVIE
Given her theatrical flair, a movie musical wouldn’t seem so out of the ordinary, and Across the Universe, for the most part works, because the genre allows for some of Taymor’s embellishments - it’s only when she goes too far, that the film sinks underneath her ambition. She also has a way with puppets and though she’s no Jim Henson, she still employs marionnettes to good effect, as seen in her stage direction of the musical adaptation of Disney’s The Lion King. Director Julie Taymor ( Frida) has a startling vision, and often accents her films with bizarre and unsettling special effects to punctuate a point.
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