Joan Baez I Am A Noise - Metacritic

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2023
1 h 53 m

2023
1 h 53 m

Summary Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.

Directed By: Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle, Karen O'Connor

In Theaters Now

2023
1 h 53 m

2023
1 h 53 m

Joan Baez I Am A Noise

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews

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Summary Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.

Directed By: Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle, Karen O'Connor

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Joan Baez

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Hanna Shykind

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Bill Clinton

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Hillary Clinton

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Bob Dylan

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Richard Farina

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Mimi Fariña

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David Harris

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Martin Luther King

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Michael Moore

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Washington Post

Oct 11, 2023

Throughout the film, it’s Baez who holds the audience spellbound, not just in live performances that remained transfixing from the late 1950s to the 2010s, but in her very being.

By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW

Oct 3, 2023

It’s a somewhat sprawling and almost ungainly film, years in the making, very revealing and yet notably incomplete.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

Oct 5, 2023

This visual memoir paints a picture of a woman who, while leading a rich professional life, was plagued by personal demons.

By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW

Oct 27, 2023

The folk singer and counterculture veteran Joan Baez is the subject of this intimate and painful documentary, which brings us to the brink of a terribly traumatic revelation that it can’t quite bear to spell out.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

Oct 6, 2023

I Am a Noise, beginning with Baez actually consulting a voice coach as she prepares for what will be a “farewell tour” (it was undertaken in 2019 before COVID hit the world), is a coherent, cohesive, and sometimes jarringly frank portrait.

By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

The Associated Press

Oct 3, 2023

The celebrated folk singer and activist was singing about civil rights, of course. But what we learn in the thoughtful, thorough and sometimes harrowingly intimate Joan Baez: I Am a Noise is that Baez was also seeking to overcome much on a personal scale: anxiety, depression, loneliness and, late in life, troubling repressed memories about her own father.

By Jocelyn Noveck FULL REVIEW

San Francisco Chronicle

Oct 10, 2023

The bottom line on Joan Baez I Am a Noise is that if you absolutely love Baez and her work, you will find nothing here to challenge your preconceptions and will probably learn some things you didn’t know. But if you’re merely Baez-curious, this documentary will not satisfy and might even make you less curious.

By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Mead Street Films

Release Date Oct 6, 2023

Duration 1 h 53 m

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Website https://www.magpictures.com/joanbaez/

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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Berlin International Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Nashville Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

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