[Review] Nowhere Boy
Sam Taylor-Wood’s feature-film debut Nowhere Boy, is a thoroughly engaging biopic of John Lennon’s teenage years, chronically his journey as a musician from his first guitar purchase to the formation of his first band, The Quarrymen, and their eventual evolution into The Beatles. That is what you’d expect from a John Lennon biopic, and undoubtedly a reason why many will go see the film, but what really gives the film depth and soul is the focus it gives to his early home life with two mother figures- his Aunt Mimi and his mother Julia....
