I saw this documentary about Joan Baez and her career at the Tower Theater. There was lots of interesting imagery from her childhood - home movies from the Fifties with her gifted family - plus photos and film clips from the folk singing and civil rights movement days of the Sixties.
Once the Vietnam War ended, Joan Baez's career started fading. The movie discusses this period when she seemed to lose her way; when her career came down to Earth.
I was saddened to learn that Baez subscribed to the 'recovered memory' movement of the Eighties and Nineties. That was something my sister subscribed to as well, at least for a time, but it was an error, leading to estrangement in the family. As it turns out, nothing is as flexible as a memory. Memories can be manufactured pretty easily. So, Baez became estranged from her father for no good reason. She seemed to shrug off the harm to her father.
A little disturbing to me.
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