I'm Not There

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★ USA/DE 2007, Todd Haynes, 135 minutes, FSK 12, original English version with German subtitles ★

Bob Dylan is neither here nor there, neither a folk singer nor a figurehead of the protest movement. He doesn't want to be recognized anywhere - except in his lyrics and in his music. Anyone who takes the risk of trying to capture Dylan's life on film has to come up with something clever, even skillful, in order to avoid creating an oppressive corset out of the contradictions. With his film I'm Not There, Todd Haynes throws all the "biopic" rules out the window for precisely these reasons and tackles the difficult task with the courage to deconstruct: he negates the usual chronologically ordered narration and places the person of Dylan in a state of undecidability.
Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and Heath Ledger, among others, each slip into one facet of the exceptional artist.