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| Cate Blanchett | ... | ||
| Ben Whishaw | ... | ||
| Christian Bale | ... |
Jack /
Pastor John
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| Richard Gere | ... | ||
| Marcus Carl Franklin | ... |
Woody /
Chaplin Boy
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| Heath Ledger | ... | ||
| Kris Kristofferson | ... |
Narrator
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| Don Francks | ... | ||
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Roc LaFortune | ... | |
| Larry Day | ... |
Government Agent
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Paul Cagelet | ... |
Carny /
Bell-Hop
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Brian R.C. Wilmes | ... |
Circus Man
(as Brian RC Wilmes)
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Pierre-Alexandre Fortin | ... | |
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Richie Havens | ... | |
| Tyrone Benskin | ... | ||
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. Written by <[email protected]>
Take all the music, everything you've heard, read, seen in documentaries about Bob and throw them in a blender and pull them out and what you get is "I'm not there" And it's a tasty concoction of a movie that comes off like a dream of everything that's publicly known about his life. Perhaps even Bob himself dreaming about the course of his life. The more you do know about what's out there about Bob the more you'll be able to make the connections with the scenes in this beautiful montage about the poet, songwriter, and musician genius of the last 60 plus years. This is a great film about a very complicated artist who could never be pinned down as representing any one ideology or persona although he seemed to imply many. I suppose Dylan will always be the great enigma and this film only helps to perpetuate it, which is part of what makes it so successful but as we all now know there's no success like failure and failure's no success at all.