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Renaldo and Clara

Renaldo and Clara (1978)

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Critic Reviews: 1
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 0

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Average Rating: 3.6/5
User Ratings: 76

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Bob Dylan made this concert film that chronicles a 1975/1976 performance of his Rolling Thunder Revue. In between songs he, his wife Sara Dylan, along with Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and other counterculture figures perform philosophically based improvisational pieces. During the skits, Dylan plays the ambiguous Renaldo, while Ronnie Hawkins and Ronee Blakely play Dylan and his wife. Songs include "Isis, I Want You," "It Ain't Me Babe," "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," "Hurricane," "Romance in

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Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Special Interest

Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard

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All Critics (5) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3)

The film contains more than its share of dead weight, but it is seldom genuinely dull.

May 6, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times
New York Times
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A metonymic sprawl characterizes Renaldo & Clara.

November 7, 2007
Senses of Cinema

It all looks pretty silly. The concert footage is all right, but the in-between stuff just has to go.

November 7, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The film can be recommended only for die-hard Dylan fans with a lot of spare time on their hands.

May 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

The very, very, very worst thing ever made.

May 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Threat
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Audience Reviews for Renaldo and Clara

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.
March 13, 2013
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.
March 13, 2011
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