John lennon movie nowhere boy reviews

John Lennon wrote the song “Julia” about his mother, and it is a strangely objective love song, as if about a real girlfriend and not a mom. Perhaps that’s how he thought of her. When he was very young, he came under the care of his Aunt Mimi, whom he regarded as his mother, and in the telling of “Nowhere Boy,” he didn’t see Julia again until the day of his uncle’s funeral.

The film is co-written by Julia Baird, his half-sister, who must be presumed to have good information.

“Julia” is a song of longing and regret, written some years after Julia’s sudden death. Their relationship was close and did not have the time to grow old.

John lennon movie nowhere boy reviews

There’s a video online of Sean Lennon singing it, in front of back-projected photographs of his father and Julia, and also of his mother, Yoko Ono. “This song is for my mother,” he says, and as he sings it, he sounds eerily like his father, in intonation, arrangement, emotion.

Perhaps it is for both his parents. He was young whe