The Hours and Times

The film really tackles a subject that not to many beatle fans think about.The relationship between john lennon and brian epstein.There is a little to much swearing from john,but overall it's not a bad movie.The movie is actually based on a trip that the two of them took in 1963.

It's basically what you would expect from it. The director must have had kept John Lennon's thought on the matter of him and Brian having that vacation together. He said that, "It was NEVER consummated. But we did have a PRETTY INTENSE RELATIONSHIP." This was carried out through the whole film, even in the famous bathroom scene. Over all I enjoyed the film for the fact that it went along with the little bits of facts and never exaggerated them. This is close to the real thing of what might have happened those couple of days.

This movie explores the complex relationship between John Lennon and homosexual Beatles manager Brian Epstein. In April 1963, Lennon and Epstein took a trip to Barcelona together, and what may have happened there is the subject of this finely nuanced film. Epstein struggles with his desperate, hopeless love for Lennon, and the surly, sharp-witted and cruel Lennon is torn between needling him about it and relieving his suffering. Watching them spar in conversation is fascinating. Contrary to what it might sound like, the movie is not exploitative. Instead it is a meditation on the frequently tortured friendship between these two men. Very well done!

I saw this one in 1994 and I was under the impression. Contrary to one of the other comments, I found Ian Hart's impersonation of Lennon strong: witty, hurting and sensitive at times. The interaction between Epstein and Lennon in a strange pre-Beatlemania atmosphere was fascinating: BEA-aircompany, Lennon going to watch some Gaudis in Barcelona (did he really know Gaudi at that time ?), Lennon picking up a girl (stewardess on the flight). It seems far from the peace loving prophet a few years later. And still, I think, much closer to the "real" John Lennon. The beautiful Bach-score (Goldberg variations by Glenn Gould) offers an impressing undertone to this portrait, which looks like a forebode of the dramatic short lives of both protagonists.

Lennon and brian epstein really did go on vacation to barcelona, back in 1963. This film is christopher munch's creation of what might have taken place on the trip. In this version of the holiday, repressed brian hits on john. But john is married, and expecting a child. We learn quite a bit about brian epstein's life, as there aren't many people he can speak with openly. It seems he really does care for john, but clearly there are obstacles. It's okay. Pretty bleak. A fifty seven minute shorty. Epstein did a great job of getting the beatles to play bigger and better venues, but at a large percentage of the profits. It's probably helpful to read up on epstein in wikipedia. Written and directed by christopher munch. Unfortunately, epstein died at 32, from an overdose of various drugs.