'I'm Not There' is a poetic but less than revealing biopic. You don't need to be fanatical about Bob Dylan to like it. It doesn't tell anything the average fan doesn't know already. The hook is in the stylistic and innovative way it is executed and how the actors capture the various cells of Dylan's life. I wanted to dismiss the film early on but it hooked me before I could shrug it off as profound mundanity.
Director, Todd Haynes turns the film on it's head as if it's written by the subject himself, as if each of the six cells are Dylan's own fantastical view of himself. It doesn't always work, sometimes it feels just too odd and quirky for its own good, but regardless of this you just can't help but love it.
Stand-out's for me are Cate Blanchett as folk-gone-rock traitor Bob and one I totally unexpected from thirteen-year-old Marcus Carl Franklin, the kid really done got the blues. Dylan has always said there is no point to his music 'It Just Is'.
Tthe same goes for Haynes film. He has created a new genre with I'm Not There... long live the bioddity!