I'm Not There. (2007)

Posted : 11 months, 1 week ago at Dec 14 21:38

''Yeah it's chaos, it's clocks, it's watermelons, it's everything.'' Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work. Cate Blanchett: Jude Director & Writer Todd Haynes has created a biopic so unique and so diverse, that it's predictably going to be attacked for not reaching the everyday standards of the everyday genres of film, with standard storytelling methods applied. Haynes never once shys away from what he is striving to accomplish: change, chaos, ambiguity. This film is soul and embodiment of Bob Dylan. The themes, settings, look, pacing, characters, chaos, ambiguity, contradictions, and for the fact that this never once tries to explain who Dylan is or why he is the way he was is, so fitting it's hard t...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Jul 29 15:24

'I'm Not There' is a poetic but less than revealing biopic. You don't need to be fanatical about Bob Dylan to like this film, It doesn't tell anything the average fan doesn't know already. The hook is in the stylistic, innovative way this biopic is executed, and how the actors capture the various cells of this musicians life. I kinda wanted to dismiss the film early on but it hooked me before I could shrug it off as profound mundanity. Haynes turns the biopic on it's head as if it's written by the subject himself, as if each of the six cells are Dylan's own fantastical view of himself. It doesn't always work, sometimes it feels just too odd and quirky for its own good, but regardless of this you just can't help but love it. Stand-out's, for me were Cate Blanchett as folk-gone-rock traitor ...Read more

Rating : 8/10