I'm Not There

Excerpt: "You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows." Review: This review is posted simultaneously with that of the Region 2 edition of I'm Not There. The opening section is the same. Go to “The DVD” for discussion specific to this release. The premise of I'm Not There is already well known. “Inspired by the many lives of Bob Dylan”, as the credit puts it, Haynes uses six actors to play six aspects of Dylan, a man who – the film demonstrates – refuses to be pinned down, and who has many times changed persona and style. In modern popular music, maybe only David Bowie rivals him as a chameleon. Those six actors include an eleven-year-old black boy (Marcus Carl Franklin) and a woman (Cate Blanchett) who paradoxically bears the strongest resemblance to the real Dylan of all of them. As befits the title, Dylan... [read full story]