I'm Not There

I'm Not There

2007 · 2 hr 15 min · R

Biography, Drama, Music

Directors

Todd Haynes

Actors

  • Christian Bale
  • Cate Blanchett
  • Heath Ledger

Credits: 9

Summary

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

More about this movie

Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified.