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U23D (U)

  • Consumer Advice: Contains strobe lighting effects
  • Run time: 1 hour 24 mins
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 22nd February 2008

Plot Synopsis

For over a quarter-century, U2 has been recognised not only for their musical invention, but for their incomparable gift for reaching millions of fans through new technologies. Their live shows immerse concert-goers in multi sensory experiences: whether through their ground breaking use of video screens or, more recently, the use of dimensional, lighted-bead video curtains.

U2 3D – the first digital 3D, multi-camera, real-time production – reflects the band's long-standing embrace of technology, its recognition that digital 3D isn't a developing platform – it's fully here – and its belief that “U2 3D” has the potential to be as revolutionary for digital 3D as “The Jazz Singer” was for talkies. Marrying advanced digital 3D imagery and 5.1 Surround Sound with the unique excitement of a live U2 concert, U2 3D takes viewers on an extraordinary cinematic journey, a quantum leap beyond traditional concert films.

Filmed during the South American leg of the band's “Vertigo” tour, “U2 3D” captures the exceptional performances on-stage during the band's concert in Buenos Aires. The film portrays the passionate reactions of 80,000 fans from nine digital 3D camera systems as well as the exuberant on-stage dynamic between U2's Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr, as they incite and inspire their massive audience.

Over 100 hours of 3D footage was shot, documenting a set list that during two weeks included such seminal U2 songs as “Pride (In the Name of Love)”, “New Year's Day”, “Sunday bloody Sunday”, “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For”, “Where the Streets Have No Name”, “With or Without You”, “Mysterious Ways” and “One”, as well as more recent tracks such as “Beautiful Day”, “Vertigo”, “City of Blinding Lights”, “Sometimes You can't Make It On Your Own”, “Love and Peace or Else” and “Original of the Species”.

A 3ality Digital production, directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington, “U2 3D” takes a performance by the band U2, winner of 22 Grammy Awards and 8 Brits, into a totally new film dimention