Reviews of I'm Not There 2007
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Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic evokes the musician's different sides, but it is much more complex than that, using the idea of a man who repeatedly reinvented himself as the starting point for an investigation of the fluidity of identity. It's heady and intellectual and obviously not for everyone, but it'll be a joy for anyone who has previously enjoyed Haynes' playful pastiches. Despite being two hours long, it never feels anything less than electric in its editing.
The entire…
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¿Como se construye una biopic? ¿Se debe seguir el canon cronológico, invitar a unos cuantos testigos y, por supuesto, encausar la narrativa apuntando a la confesión del protagonista? Pero esto no es un documental (para quienes lo busquen, lo encontrarán en la filmografía de Scorsese), y, como ya se nos advierte en el título, Robert Zimmerman no está aquí. Lo que tenemos son seis esbozos de una vida, lo que se dice por ahí, incluso escenas inspiradas en su lírica,…
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I ended up really liking I'm Not There but I don't know why. I was literally nodding off at the start, often struggled to understand what was going or even follow the chronology. There were several points when I'd happily have had the film end but it just kept getting better and better. My knowledge of Dylan is probably limited to Don't Look Back and so I enjoyed Blanchett's sections the most. Had I known more about Dylan then I suspect that I'd get even more out of the film.
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Todd Haynes's dreamlike, avant-garde film about Bob Dylan is about as far from the traditional bio-flick as one could possibly imagine, blessedly so.
It's remarkably hard to describe, but I'll give it a try: I'M NOT THERE attempts to encapsulate the entirety of American culture in the last century through the prism of six of Bob Dylan's various personas that he has presented over the years, each persona being played by a different actor, including a woman (a mesmerizing Cate…
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It's too silly (especially in Woody's scenes) to be a serious biographical drama.
The acting, writing, and music is fine and dandy, but the way Bob Dylan's life is shown doesn't work too well. Bob's actors were fine, but his personalities being used as different people didn't really make for a good biographical film. Most of what was shown, like the fake documentary scenes along with Woody's and a lot of other scenes were uninteresting or not very entertaining.
It's a new directorial way for a biographical film, but it wasn't pulled off very well.
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Zugegeben, es ist schon etwas anstrengend sich den Film “I’m not there” anzuschauen, aber es lohnt sich. Hat man sich einmal auf die ungewöhnliche erzählweise von Todd Haynes eingelassen, bekommt man einen Film zu sehen, den man getrost als Meisterwerk bezeichnen kann. Es ist spannend und fesselnd zu gleich zu sehen und so entdecken, wie die eigentlich grundverschiedenen Charaktere zusammengehören und wie sich mit fast jeder Szene ein weiteres Puzzleteil in das kunstvolle Gemälde eingesetzt wird. Hat man im Hinterkopf,…
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Vi "I'm Not There" hace algunos meses, y la llame una de las peliculas mas fascinantes, al igual que una de las mas desesperantes del año. Los meses pasaron y no pude sacarla de mi cabeza. Ahora que la veo de nuevo en la comodidad de mi hogar me doy cuenta de su gran poder y originalidad.
El director Todd Haynes destruye y reinventa el genero de la biografia musical, no como drama sino como una obra meta fisica y surreal que existe como una cancion de Bob Dylan. -
The Reservoir Dog…
Without ever mentioning the name Bob Dylan, director Todd Haynes’ brilliant, dreamlike “I’m Not There” morphs in and out of many phases, psyches, mystique and masks of an icon forever fused into a cultural canon ball, flying and popping louder than most any before or after.
The film employs different actors (Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Ben Whishaw and Marcus Carl Franklin) to portray the legend’s takes on life, love, music, words, spirit, faith,…
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I am not a fan of Bob Dylan, actually I don't even know his music or his personal life at all. I suspect if I started to listen to his music I'd like it. But this film is definitely not for me.
This is a totally unconventional film about a musician. Todd Haynes wrote 5 segments each starring a character inspired by a different incarnation of Dylan, a different era or phase of his life.
There isn't really a plot…
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I've never been a Dylan fan but now I'm eager to revisit his stuff. Blanchett kills it in this film.
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i found this very interesting but overall it didnt work for me ut some parts did i thought the heath ledger and the cate blanchet parts were the best and the richard gere and the little boy parts were interesting but think them parts needed more and the bale part started off strong but got sick of it by the end overall it was interesting.