Renaldo and Clara

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Audience Member Bob had to pull this film because it was so bad that theaters would only play it (if lucky) for a week, while others would even air it at all. Some might say you had to be on drugs to see it, but I'm think being asleep is the only way to last thought the nearly 4 hours. From 1 to10 it rates 1/2 star simply because Bob and Joan Baez are in it. Funny how Janet Maslin, NY Time (top critic) ripped it to shreds but gave it 6/10 for some bad reason, but she says it's not dull. HA! Totally dull. Bob's music is great but he hides himself like in this movie. George Harrison is right about Bobs' Traveling Wilburys song and Americans liking obscure words. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review william k Quirky, idiosyncratic, often confusing and much too long mixture of concert footage, documentary and fictional scenes is definitely fascinating to watch, but one wonders, if Bob Dylan ever was certain about his intentions to create this film or whether he had an idea who its potential audience would be. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member As a die-hard Dylan fan, I adore Renaldo and Clara. Perhaps I love it more for what it documents than as a film itself. Even the parts that are not a documentary per se' feature characters portrayed by people who play big parts in Dylan's world (Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg etc.), I find importance in this. Most of all I enjoyed seeing Sara Dylan (by then Bob's Ex wife) acting in the vignette sections. Sara has inspired so many great Dylan songs, most notably "Sara" off of the 1975 Desire album and to be able to witness her and take her in felt very special to me. The concert footage is incredible and some of the performances are mind-blowing. At nearly 4 hours long this movie is hard to sit all the way through but I love it for what it is and for who and what it captured. It's my personal favorite time in Dylan's career. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member At a whopping four hours in length, the main issue with Bob Dylan's directorial debut, "Renaldo and Clara" is that Dylan simply throws far too much into the cooking pot and doesn't correctly balance any of it. This is a messy compilation of concert footage, interviews, and instances of melodramatic fiction that all abruptly interrupt one another instead of smoothly transitioning into each other, and just drag on and on without a sense of purpose or accomplishment. It's not that "Renaldo and Clara" doesn't really seem to know what it wants to be, it's really just that Dylan was clearly afraid of straying too far from a project that didn't mostly concern his music for the sake of his audience's interest, but as a result, he ended up becoming far too self-indulgent with this glacial cure for insomnia of a film instead in the process. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member To sit through this film you need to be a Bob Dylan film. If you are then it's worth the viewing otherwise it'll be confusing and boring. Watch for the rose being passed to the next person who is going to speak. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Has the distinction of being one of the worst films ever made, but the performances of Dylan and The Rolling Thunder Revue merit the 5 star rating. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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