ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Followed by an in-person discussion with director Julie Taymor and composer Elliot Goldenthal

The songs of the Beatles provide the sonic framework for this musical tale of romance, war and peace. Taymor’s wildly inventive 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 reshaping 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.