
Bed Peace
In March 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono turned their honeymoon into a media event, inviting reporters into their Amsterdam hotel room where they stayed in bed for a week, signs reading "Hair Peace" and "Bed Peace" taped to the windows, as a protest against the Vietnam War. This film, drawn from footage of that bed-in and a follow-up staged in Montreal, follows the two as they field baffled and hostile questions from journalists, sing and talk with visitors including Timothy Leary, and record "Give Peace a Chance" live in the hotel room with a small crowd joining in. Lennon works the press with deadpan humor, turning ridicule into airtime for the message, while Ono stays close beside him through the constant camera presence. There is no outside narrator; the couple's own footage and conversation carry the film. It is a document of two famous people using their fame, and a mattress, as a stage for an anti-war statement.