Lennon Naked (2010)

Recommended

UK

Television Film

Director: Edmund Coulthard

Writer: Robert Jones

Cinematographer: Matt Gray

Composer: Dickon Hinchcliffe

Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Christopher Fairbank, Allan Corduner, Andrew Scott, Naoko Mori, Michael Colgan, Craig Cheetham, Jack Morgan, Claudie Blakely, Roroy Kinnear, Adrian Bower

This excellent BBC production – with a painfully authentic feeling and very affecting central performance from Eccleston – paints a portrait of John Lennon at three points through his life as a Beatle (beginning, middle, and end), filtered through his tortuous relationship with his estranged father, convincingly capturing the essence of a perennially angry young man. Iain.Stott