"Let it Be" film is a "bore," according to 1970 Observer review

The Guardian shares a vintage review of the "Let it Be" film, first published in 1970 by filmmaker Tony Palmer.
The Beatles appear to know about themselves with unnerving accuracy. This is Paul talking (as usual about the Beatles as if they were someone else) from a deleted section of the film: "Having scaled every known peak of showbusiness, the Beatles quite deliberately never came home again. They went their own private way, found their own friends and became less reliant on each other for guidance and friendship. Today, all of them find acute embarrassment at the stories of one another's adventures and conduct." This is John talking to Ringo (in a pontifical BBC arts documentary voice): "Now what do you think about mock Tudor houses in Weybridge?" (where three of them used to live). Ringo: "Well, I don't mind them being in Weybridge. It's just when they put them in London I think they get in the way of the traffic."

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. Yet, there they are, singing away, charming the pants off the most cynical of pop-music haters.

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