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- 1970
- G
- United Artists
- 1 h 21 m
- 1970
- G
- United Artists
- 1 h 21 m
Summary The filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
Directed By: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
- 1970
- G
- United Artists
- 1 h 21 m
- 1970
- G
- United Artists
- 1 h 21 m
Let It Be
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Summary The filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
Directed By: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
69
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
In many ways, Let it Be is the best Beatles film of all since they are not playing the Beatles but rather are being themselves.
Let It Be is a very lovely spectacle--a film to make you smile, and with its .16mm tawny colors and pastels, one that invites repeated viewings. [11 Jun 1970, p.55]
Sanitized it may well be, but agonizing nonetheless—it's a domestic squabble that somehow touches history.
Filmed as the Beatles were crumbling under the weight of their own legend, LET IT BE is a milder film than its reputation suggests.
The very helter‐skelter, unstudied nature of the picture provides a revealing close‐up of the world's most famous quartet, playing, relaxing and chatting.
As a 16mm cinema verite of four rock musicians in a studio jamming a bit, trying to get their music together, clowning and rapping a little, and finally doing a brief concert, Let It Be is a relatively innocuous, unimaginative piece of film.
The film is a bore. It's supposed to show how the Beatles work, but it doesn't. Shot without any design, clumsily edited, uninformative and naive, it would have destroyed a lesser group.
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Production Company
Apple Corps,
ABKCO Films
Release Date May 13, 1970
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating G
Genres
Tagline An intimate experience on film
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Grammy Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
