Folk music icon Joan Baez, who’s now 82, came of age just as musicians’ live gigs were often recorded and thereby preserved for the record, virtues that are used to advantage in ‘Joan Baez I Am A Noise.’ Read the full review here:
Film Festival, is prefaced by a knowing remark from Gabriel Garcia Marquez — “Everyone has three lives: the public, the private, and the secret.” One can fairly say that the documentary impressively handles the first component, reveals some frank examples of the second and allows fleeting glimpses of the third. One of the first things we see is a roomful of meticulously maintained vaults and drawers containing elements pertinent to Baez’s peripatetic life.
It was an amazing ascent, to be sure, arguably too much for someone that young to handle. But even at the earliest age, Baez’s dedication to social issues was evident, which brought her early on to link up with, then traumatizingly split from, the very young Bob Dylan, of whom there is considerable amusing footage. She became increasingly involved in the civil rights movement as it proceeded through the 1960s; her attachment to social causes was built into her DNA, forever constant and felt.
The film is rewarding for revealing a major cultural personality in a satisfying fullness. Of course there is more to the story than a single film can cover, but still no sense of anything being deliberately avoided or hidden. You come away feeling that you have a pretty good sense of a life lived in full.
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