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I'm Not There lets you hear it again, more majestically than ever.
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I'm Not There is the movie of the year.
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The strangest thing about Todd Haynes's new movie isn't that he cast six actors to play the various faces and phases of Bob Dylan. It's that he needed only six.
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What Haynes has essentially done is create a film that is a Bob Dylan song, one of his best.
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Faced with an artist defined more by his lyrics than his life story, Haynes delivers a song-cycle of a movie: vivid, exaggerated, contradictory impressions of a man who confounds a culture still looking to define him.
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This film insists on being taken on its own terms -- the sort of demand, in other words, that defines the best art.
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One of the most inventive and joyous movies of the year.
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Brilliantly strange, often funny and ultimately heartbreaking film.
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Among its many achievements, Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There hurls a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory.
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So what if nothing is revealed. Todd Haynes is a mischievous visionary who puts the music and the myth of Bob Dylan before us in I'm Not There and dares us not to revel in the troubadour's poetic, contentious, ever-changing essence. It's a feast for the eyes, the ears and the Dylanologist scratching around our minds and hearts.
