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.
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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.
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,... [More]
Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere
Director: Todd Haynes
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REVIEWS FOR I'M NOT THERE
Where is the defiant, sensuous expansiveness of Dylan's songs?
Aug 27, 2009
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.
Feb 2, 2009
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.
Jun 13, 2008
Full of Dylanology, Dylanography and Dylanerbole... if that's your thing
May 22, 2008
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.
May 7, 2008
Haynes is brilliant at tearing off the top of his own head and giving audiences a peek into his pop obsessions.
May 1, 2008
Not particularly entertaining or enlightening, but it is slow-moving and long.
Apr 16, 2008
Uma das cinebiografias mais atípicas e, por isto mesmo, mais fiéis ao espírito criativo de seu biografado que já tive o prazer de assistir.
Mar 25, 2008
Director Todd Haynes takes an artistic leap, I just don't want to catch all of the finished product.
Mar 4, 2008
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.
Feb 10, 2008
Perhaps the whole weird, scattershot thing might play better when you can skip-search to your favorite bits.
Jan 31, 2008
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.
Jan 28, 2008
I'm Not There becomes another boomer ode to the cultural supremacy of the sixties.
Jan 15, 2008
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.
Jan 9, 2008
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.
Jan 4, 2008
Top CriticBy 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.
Dec 30, 2007
...a kind of filmic Dylan song, allusive and evocative and purposefully, poetically ambiguous.
Dec 28, 2007
It's brilliant, demanding, exasperating; it's undramatic but absorbing, more enigmatic than revealing, up itself and wildly inventive.
Dec 26, 2007
A crazy film which shouldn't work, but for most of the time does.
Dec 21, 2007
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