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Im Not There
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work. In 1959 a guitar-strumming youth (Marcus Carl Franklin) rides the rails, calling himself 'Guthrie.' Then a man named Jack (Christian Bale) emerges in New York's Greenwich Village, followed by 'Robbie (Heath Ledger),' Jude (Cate Blanchett) and other personalities.
10 October 1977, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1951, Canada
27 September 1928, Lambeth, England, UK
21 December 1956, Lachute, Québec, Canada
1983, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
25 July 1981, Montreal, Québec, Canada
22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA
21 January 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 January 1984, Red Lake, Ontario, Canada
April 28, 2011
I'm Not There is a very special kind of life and times. It leaves ordinary musical biopics like Ray and Walk the Line and Beyond the Sea in the dust.
February 02, 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.
August 27, 2009
Where is the defiant, sensuous expansiveness of Dylan's songs?
March 24, 2016
...not a biography by any conventional definition but an impressionistic survey of the artist, his art, his interaction (and at times collision) with the culture he both grabs onto and flees, and the mystery that still surrounds Dylan.
June 12, 2010
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.
November 30, 2007
To enjoy I'm Not There you should be just a little bit Dylan-crazy, fascinated by his talent, ornery personality and enduring cultural influence.
September 30, 2014
Since much of I'm Not There falls short in the lived moment, its individual threads don't lead back to Haynes's larger concerns.
January 04, 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.
November 27, 2007
I think it's really interesting stuff and I enjoyed every aspect of it.
November 27, 2007
It doesn't all work and it runs too long. But every fragment of Dylan's life, every version of him, from the funny to the tippy, rings true.
November 30, 2007
How does it feeeel? Like a rolling shambles, much of it, and even a second viewing doesn't erase the sensation.
November 30, 2007
Only devout Dylan fans will be able to derive much sense out of it. Dylan novices can only sit back and surrender to the ride Haynes offers: It's a strange, surreal trip.
