Joan Baez: I Am A Noise

Documentary | 2023 | NR. 1hr 53min
Closed Captioning CAST: Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, Bob Dylan, David Harris DIRECTOR: Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle, Karen O'Connor

"Joan Baez I Am A Noise" is an unusually intimate psychological portrait of legendary folk singer and activist Joan Baez. Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this immersive documentary is more of a visualby Joan's extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and off stage - from lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work with MLK and a heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan. A searingly honest look at a living legend, the film is a deeply personal exploration of an iconic artist who has never told the full truth of her life until now.

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Reviews

...a film whose chief sin may just be that it doesn't run about a half-hour longer.

Chris Willman, Variety

Anyone with an interest in the key artists of the counterculture movement will find much to appreciate here.

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter