I'm Not There (2007)
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Reviews Counted:152
Fresh:117
Rotten:35
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $3,728,430
Synopsis: Todd Haynes (VELVET GOLDMINE, FAR FROM HEAVEN) delivers this dazzling, experimental take on the life of popular music's most revered and enigmatic artist: Bob Dylan. In keeping with the... [More]
Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere
Director: Todd Haynes
Reviews for I'm Not There
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 4/5 |
It's brilliant, demanding, exasperating; it's undramatic but absorbing, more enigmatic than revealing, up itself and wildly inventive. Full Review |
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Where is the defiant, sensuous expansiveness of Dylan's songs? Full Review |
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3.0/5 |
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 |
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2/4 |
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 |
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3/4 |
Full of Dylanology, Dylanography and Dylanerbole... if that's your thing Full Review |
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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 |
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5/5 |
Haynes is brilliant at tearing off the top of his own head and giving audiences a peek into his pop obsessions. Full Review |
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C |
Not particularly entertaining or enlightening, but it is slow-moving and long. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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 |
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5/10 |
Director Todd Haynes takes an artistic leap, I just don't want to catch all of the finished product. Full Review |
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C- |
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 |
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3/5 |
Perhaps the whole weird, scattershot thing might play better when you can skip-search to your favorite bits. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
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 |
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I'm Not There becomes another boomer ode to the cultural supremacy of the sixties. Full Review |
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B |
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 |
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2/4 |
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 |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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93/100 |
...a kind of filmic Dylan song, allusive and evocative and purposefully, poetically ambiguous. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A crazy film which shouldn't work, but for most of the time does. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Not a lot of fun. Full Review |
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