Steven Soderbergh’s AI-assisted John Lennon documentary is already dividing Cannes — and some critics say the visuals overwhelmed the emotion
- Steven Soderbergh’s new John Lennon documentary sparked controversy at Cannes over its use of Meta AI-generated visuals
- Critics praised the Lennon interview itself but heavily criticized the film’s surreal AI-assisted sequences
- The debate around the documentary has become part of Hollywood’s larger fight over artificial intelligence in filmmaking
Steven Soderbergh arrived at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend with a documentary built around one of the most haunting recordings in music history.
The director’s new film, “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” uses a never-before-released radio interview Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded inside the Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, the same day Lennon was killed. By the end of its premiere, though, much of the discussion had shifted away from John Lennon entirely and toward artificial intelligence.
The documentary mixes archival photographs, audio recordings, and experimental visuals to recreate the atmosphere of the conversation. What has sparked immediate controversy...
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