Joan Baez I Am A Noise

A well-crafted biographical documentary that draws on the rich life of Joan Baez. There is a wealth of material on this extraordinary woman who was friends with Martin Luther King or was at the beginning of Bob Dylan’s career. With a little exaggeration, you might even say that you could not burn yourself with an adequate selection of sections of her life. Joan herself was excessively candid during the filming because, as she sensibly remarked in a post-screening interview, she doesn't have that much time left between us, so there's no need to hide her skeletons in the closet. For this reason, the documentary comes across not as a mere compilation of facts but as a much more personal confession, perhaps even psychotherapy, with a number of admissions, including her complicated relationship with her seemingly idyllic father. (11/02/2023)