Renaldo and Clara Renaldo and Clara: a synopsis This extensive discussion of the film 'Renaldo and Clara' was originally posted to rec.music.dylan by in late 1993. Perhaps it more properly belongs in, but there is enough OBC (Official Content) to justify its inclusion here in.

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Renaldo and Clara: a synopsis What follows is my annotation of the film 'Renaldo and Clara', written and directed by Bob Dylan. The film is known to be obscure (it got devestatingly bad reviews), and I wrote this summary to help me understand it. I found that once I gave the film a sufficient amount of thought its meaning became very clear. It is about Bob Dylan's troubled relationship with women. Dylan's wife Sara and his ex-lover Joan Baez are actresses in the film, and they act out a love triangle with him that is clearly meant to mirror real life, or at least to appear to mirror it. The method of the film is to blatantly deceive the audience over and over again, layering deception upon deception, and this is what makes the film appear so meaningless and obscure.

In fact, the multiple deceptions are there only because the meaning of the film is so naked underneath. There are several sub-themes that I also discuss in this synopsis.

The film is a unified, connected whole, and it may depict more closely than anything else what life looks like from inside Dylan's head. It also has some of the best Dylan concert footage I've ever seen. It was filmed during the first half of his Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1975, between the 'Desire' and 'Street-Legal' albums, when Dylan's musical experimentation was at a peak. All the songs mentioned in the summary are live cuts or unreleased re-recordings; there are no studio recordings in the film. The band is staged as follows: ____________ ____________ Wyeth Rix drums perc. __________ __________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ Ronson Burnette Stoner Mansfield l.

Guitar guitar bass misc. __________ __________ __________ __________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ McGuinn Rivera Dylan Neuwirth Soles guitar violin v., harm. guitar guitar __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ with the following musicians: Rob Stoner -- bass, backup vocals, musical director. Plays Gene Vincent in some scenes. Steven Soles -- rhythm guitar.

Plays Ronee Blakely's abusive boyfriend. Scarlet Rivera -- electric violin, also prominently featured on the 'Desire' album. Bob Neuwirth -- rhythm guitar, plays 'The Masked Tortilla' and reads some poetry in scenes. Roger McGuinn -- twelve-string guitar.

Formerly of the Byrds. Mick Ronson -- flashy lead guitar, from David Bowie's band. Plays a backstage bouncer in one scene. David Mansfield -- various instruments including electric violin and pedal steel guitar. Plays an angel in his underwear in the bordello scenes. T-Bone Burnette -- backup guitar, keyboards. Howie Wyeth -- Drums.

Luther Rix -- Percussion. And now, scene by scene, here's the film. 1 Bob Dylan and Bob Neuwirth are on stage singing 'When I Paint My Masterpiece' as the titles roll. Dylan is wearing a rubber mask that gives him an other- worldly appearance. The rest of the band is not yet seen, just Dylan and Neuwirth (Neuwirth, for those who don't know, is a longtime Dylan companion and fellow folksinger-hipster). 2 A crowd of people in a dark room are discussing tour logistics and hotel arrangements. Roger McGuinn's face is visible among them.

3 David Blue (another G. Village early 60's folksinger) is playing pinball next to a swimming pool and telling the camera about his first trip to New York -- he swiped money from his father's wallet, took a bus to 42nd Street and then went right back home.