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She shall overcome
With access to the folk legend’s vast personal archive, a new doc finds Joan Baez facing her demons.
By Sylvie Simmons.
Watched by Vanessa Redgrave (bottom left), Joan Baez performs at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, May 29, 1965.
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Joan Baez: I Am A Noise
★★★★
Dir: Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, Karen O’Connor
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IT BEGINS with a close-up on Joan Baez’s young face, singing an African-American spiritual, Oh Freedom. Her expression is grave and earnest, her voice the spell-binding soprano that Dylan described not long ago – on his website; he’s not in the film in person – as “like a siren from off some Greek Island.”