Rent I'm Not There (2007)

For Dylan fans only - I'm Not There review by JD

Who would have thought that if 4 actors of the caliber of Ledger, Bale Gere and Blanchett played the same (male) person that the female would give the best performance. A bit of panto perhaps? The name Bob Dylan is never referred to which feels as if the film couldn't afford the royalties. Most of the film shows Dylan as a heavy smoking arty intellectual who turns most questions round to the enquirer. Hardly riveting stuff. I found it pretty boring even though I liked Dylan in the 70's. He is hardly relevant now and the film should have tried harder to appeal to those of us who are not disciples.

The philosophical coherence of a headless chicken - I'm Not There review by Gwydion

We were supposed to see it as something insightful into US life and 1960s radicalism.

I saw a set of banalities.

Some quite nice performances, but was the original serious, even?

How does it feel

To love and electric eel

And borrow anything you cannot steal!

Surprisingly Bob - I'm Not There review by LA

Have seen this a few times, and it is, despite his absence ( ha, very Bob) very Bob. Some lovely casting, this brings a surprisingly believable portrait of the elusive one in all its confusion, some lovely imagining from his own song lyrics of the worlds inside his head, whether folk gothic or cowboy, and the real music... believably shows the difficulties of trying to be his friend, lover or wife. Very sympathetic.