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 1985, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
12 April 1964, Montréal, Québec, Canada
21 December 1956, Lachute, Québec, Canada
2 January 1984, Red Lake, Ontario, Canada
9 September 1980, Kalispell, Montana, USA
30 December 1986, Montréal, Québec, Canada
29 September 1947, New Carlisle, Quebec, Canada
1961, Hertfordshire, England, UK
14 October 1980, Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
26 March 1959, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
23 November 1976, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
4 April 1979, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
21 December 1963, Montréal, Québec, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 30, 2007
How does it feeeel? Like a rolling shambles, much of it, and even a second viewing doesn't erase the sensation.
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.
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.
November 27, 2007
I think it's really interesting stuff and I enjoyed every aspect of it.
August 27, 2009
Where is the defiant, sensuous expansiveness of Dylan's songs?
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.
