Ben Whishaw, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Since arriving in New York City’s folk music scene in the 1960s, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has become a major figure in popular music, influencing millions with his chart topping songs. Hi...( read more  read more... )s records have earned Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards, and he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. This film is ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where seven characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

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R, 2 hrs. 15 min.

Directed by: Todd Haynes

Release Date: November 21, 2007

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DVD Release Date: May 6, 2008

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  • October 24, 2009
    I'd have enjoyed it more if I knew anything about Bob Dylan. I loved the approach to this film, and the meaning behind it. Unfortunately it was far too long and drawn out, and after a while I felt like I was watching a David Lynch movie. Cate Blanchett did a steller job playin...( read more)g a man.
  • October 1, 2009
    I like a bit of Bob Dylan now and again but my lack of knowledge on the singer, or should I say, due to the fact I'm not completely obsessed by the man, I found this film a little hard to follow at times. That's said, the direction and performances were fantastic. I liked the con...( read more)cept too but it?s not original, it was executed in a much better way in a film called Palindromes, which is a much better film.
  • June 26, 2009
    This film was a brave attempt, but it easily causes confusion. It?s very arty in it?s interpretation, which works well if you have an understanding of that interpretation from the beginning, otherwise you will find yourself lost throughout the film.

    Ironically none of the Act...( read more)ors used looked like Dylan (as it seems was intentional) apart from Cate Blanchett, who at times did resemble the iconic star and was without doubt the best version.

    What bothers me is as a fan of Bob Dylan is that I found the film was more about the film style than Dylan itself, which pleased me as a film fan, but not a Dylan fan. Also the film isn't particularly revealing in a conventional sense. I believe the different sides of Dylan came across well, but with a loss of content somehow, I hardly know anything more about Dylan than before I watched the film. It almost seems like a working progress.
  • March 11, 2009
    I'm Not There is the biography of Bob Dylan. And it isn't. Now you're probably wondering what in the hell I'm talking about, so let me explain. The film takes segments of Dylan's life and rewrites them into little stories that are related to each other... and not. Writer/director...( read more) Todd Haynes gives us a film that isn't your typical music bio-pic, but something that's just as much of an enigma as Bob Dylan himself is.In this case six Bobs are better than one and with the cast that's playing Dylan(s) you can't really go wrong with this flick.
  • January 4, 2009
    never seen so much codswallop in my life!
  • November 18, 2009
    Painfull. Seriously I tryed 4 or 5 time from rent to movie tv networks. English and French. Never finish it. It was painfull. And i see that everyone love it. I just don't and i don't even know why.
  • November 11, 2009
    Best Art Direction 2007
  • November 9, 2009
    A real task to get through as arguably, nothing ever happens but it is rewarding. The performances are refreshing and fantastic especially Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger in one of his last roles.
  • November 6, 2009
    this was a strange an interesting movie
  • November 3, 2009
    artistic and unique approaches to image a life and thoughts of Bob Dylan. I like it!! The screenplay is a bit rough to follow though. but it's nice on the whole!!

Critic Reviews


November 21, 2007
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

The film is bracingly original; it's also mystifying, overlong and at times nearly incoherent. Floating at a distance from its audience, it creates its own smoky logic. full review

November 21, 2007
Armond White, The New York Press

I'm Not There has epic length, but it's one bad idea after another. full review

November 21, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

What Haynes does is take away the reassuring segues that argue everything flows and makes sense, and to show what's really chaos under the skin of the film. full review

November 21, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Among its many achievements, Todd Haynes's I'm Not There hurls a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory. full review

November 21, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim

Cate Blanchett has delivered the most audacious, astounding and entertaining performance of the year by ANYONE, male or female. full review

November 20, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

one of the most inventive and joyous movies of the year. full review

November 19, 2007
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

It makes Yellow Submarine look like a miracle of sober narrative. full review

November 19, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

Todd Haynes has devised a Bob Dylan biopic that not even Dylan, for all his self-mythologizing, would have had the audacity to conceive. full review

October 19, 2007
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

An intellectual whirligig lacking depth or soul. full review

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Comments


  • zidia7
    September 26, 2009
    I'm really going to miss Heath Ledger,And it really is sad there coming out on these news programs about him having drug problems we never heard about it before his death wish they didn't start now let him rest in peace and let his fans remember him as a wonderful actor and a great dad,Don't think his daughter as she gets older wants to hear this about her dad,We will never forget him!- me to! I agree totally
  • elissaheaton
    January 30, 2008
    I'm really going to miss Heath Ledger,And it really is sad there coming out on these news programs about him having drug problems we never heard about it before his death wish they didn't start now let him rest in peace and let his fans remember him as a wonderful actor and a great dad,Don't think his daughter as she gets older wants to hear this about her dad,We will never forget him!
  • kaylaishxc
    September 17, 2007
    EXCELLENT.

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