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Three-part harmony: Peter Jackson docu-series tells a widescreen story of the Let It Be sessions. By John Robinson
PETERJACKSON is a transformative film director. He’s turned New Zealand into Tolkien’s Middle Earth and (in his exceptional documentary They Shall Not Grow Old), remade the jerky, unrelatable figures in murky newsreel footage into the very real human combatants in the First World War.
If we were to have believed the teaser trailer for his Beatles documentary, which arrived to cheer the world in high pandemic times, his latest project had done something similar: turned notoriously fraught Beatles sessions into a feelgood movie, their rapport undimmed, the band still essentially – save the long moustaches and the new girlfriends – the same loveable moptops they were in 1964.
The director is very good, but he’s not a miracle-worker, and that early bit of misdirection ultimately cues up a three-part series that is a great deal deeper than anyone might have hoped. Just as the technical
