The Beatles – Now And Then (la última canción de The Beatles)
2023 · 12m · Reino Unido
Directed by Oliver Murray
Genres: biography, documentary, musical
Tones: contemplative, mythic, tender
The eventful, five-decade journey of 'Now and Then', the last Beatles song: from John Lennon's mythologised 1970s demo, worked on by Paul, George and Ringo in 1995 and left unfinished, to its completion in 2022 thanks to software developed by Peter Jackson's team that finally separated John's voice from his piano.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects a reverent Beatles doc, and Murray delivers exactly that—which is precisely why it doesn't interest me; there's no premise here that upends the mythology, just confirms it with prettier footage and a neat tech story bolted on.
A formally disciplined meditation on artistic resurrection and technological mediation, situated squarely in the lineage of music documentary craft while interrogating what it means for machines to complete human intent—the editing rhythm between archive and present-day testimony does the real work.
The choice to let the AI-separated vocal sit bare against minimal arrangement for those first moments is devastating in its restraint, trusting that Lennon's voice alone—finally *alone*—carries the entire weight of time and loss.