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I'm Not There (2007)

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Reviews Counted:154

Fresh:118

Rotten:36

Average Rating:7/10

Consensus: I'm Not There's unique editing, visuals, and multiple talented actors portraying Bob Dylan make for a deliciously unconventional experience. Each segment brings a new and fresh take on Dylan's life.

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language, some sexuality and nudity

Runtime: 2 hr. 15 min.

Genre: Drama

Theatrical Release: Nov 21, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $3.7M

Synopsis: Since arriving in New York City’s folk music scene in the 1960s, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has become a major figure in popular music,... Since arriving in New York City’s folk music scene in the 1960s, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has become a major figure in popular music, influencing millions with his chart topping songs. His records have earned Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards, and he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. This film is ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where seven characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work. [More]

Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere

Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Kris Kristofferson, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Gainsbourg, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams

Director: Todd Haynes

Director: Todd Haynes
Screenwriter: Todd Haynes, Oren Moverman
Producer: Andreas Grosch, Christine Vachon, John Rosen, John Wells, Philip Elway
Distributor: The Weinstein Co.

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Haynes' film has no straight lines, it is all collage and pastiche and an endless series of intersections that all, quite improbably, lead to a startlingly accurate (if abstracted) vision of the many faces of Dylan.

Full Review Source: DCist | comment Comment
Jun 12, 2010
Ian Buckwalter
Ian Buckwalter
DCist

Where is the defiant, sensuous expansiveness of Dylan's songs?

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 27, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

I'm Not There is coy and fatuous, but it also can be intriguing and thought-provoking. But I'm Not There makes us consider Dylan with new eyes.

Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly | comment Comment
Feb 2, 2009
Tony Macklin
Tony Macklin
Fayetteville Free Weekly

Abstract expressionism, paying tribute to its hero in a fashion every bit as enigmatic and chameleon-like as the man himself. Is it a faux-documentary? Is it a biographical drama? At times, it is both. In the end, we are left with an ambitious misfire.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment 3 Comments
Jun 13, 2008
Rossiter Drake
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner

Full of Dylanology, Dylanography and Dylanerbole... if that's your thing

Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
May 22, 2008
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

The director's disappointment in Dylan's downward metamorphosis from outlaw poet, prophet and political idealist to cynic, egotist, wasted stoner, Jesus freak and recluse, is palpable, with a symbolic dirge for a body that has outlived its art.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
May 7, 2008
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

Haynes is brilliant at tearing off the top of his own head and giving audiences a peek into his pop obsessions.

Full Review Source: MSNBC | comment Comment
May 1, 2008
Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC

Not particularly entertaining or enlightening, but it is slow-moving and long.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
Apr 16, 2008
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Uma das cinebiografias mais atípicas e, por isto mesmo, mais fiéis ao espírito criativo de seu biografado que já tive o prazer de assistir.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
Mar 25, 2008
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Director Todd Haynes takes an artistic leap, I just don't want to catch all of the finished product.

Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | comment Comment
Mar 4, 2008
Jeff Bayer
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review

So self-aware and dull, you wonder what's the point of Haynes being experimental if his experiment doesn't yield something that's compelling or, at the very least, entertaining. Insight might have been a goal, but there's no insight here.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
Feb 10, 2008
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Perhaps the whole weird, scattershot thing might play better when you can skip-search to your favorite bits.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
Jan 31, 2008
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

It doesn't strike me that this multi-metaphorical experiment succeeds in illuminating a soaring talent who keeps his private life private and has always denied the hungry press any hints about the meanings in his songs.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
Jan 28, 2008
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

I'm Not There becomes another boomer ode to the cultural supremacy of the sixties.

Full Review | comment 1 Comment
Jan 15, 2008
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

The iconoclastic film about the idiosyncratic artist is truly an inventive film but not an easy one to come to grips with or instantly enjoy.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
Jan 9, 2008
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

There are those who will applaud what Haynes and his actors have accomplished, and I can understand its appeal on an intellectual level. But I am not a supporter of film without form or art without structure.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment 3 Comments
Jan 4, 2008
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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By mirroring Dylan's concepts with his music and avoiding both the biographical route and the songs-tell-a-story route, Haynes creates the most provocative, electric examination of an artist in years.

Full Review Source: Scene-Stealers.com | comment Comment
Dec 30, 2007
Eric Melin
Eric Melin
Scene-Stealers.com

...a kind of filmic Dylan song, allusive and evocative and purposefully, poetically ambiguous.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
Dec 28, 2007
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

It's brilliant, demanding, exasperating; it's undramatic but absorbing, more enigmatic than revealing, up itself and wildly inventive.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
Dec 26, 2007
Paul Byrnes
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald

A crazy film which shouldn't work, but for most of the time does.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
Dec 21, 2007
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London
 
 
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