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Article: A legend who is 'Not There'; Enigmatic Bob Dylan gets esoteric on-screen portrait.(SHOW)(MOVIES)(Movie review)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 23, 2007
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Byline: Scott Galupo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Bob Dylan is such an impenetrable enigma that, by Todd Haynes' lights, only an impenetrable enigma of a biopic would do the man justice. Full of esoteric references and symbols, shot in both color and black-and-white, the filmmaker's "I'm Not There" is a hallucinatory mash-up of visual palettes and narrative techniques.
Mr. Haynes, who last gave us the highly stylized yet faithful Douglas Sirk homage "Far From Heaven" (2002), takes wild imaginative license with the outline of Mr. Dylan's biography. You will not see Mr. Dylan as a nice, middle-class Jewish boy in Minnesota or jamming with the Traveling Wilburys. ...