Anthony Lane, in The New Yorker, says it again.

The new Todd Haynes film, “I’m Not There,” is not a documentary about Bob Dylan.

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It makes “Yellow Submarine” look like a miracle of sober narrative.

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To come at a stubborn subject from multiple angles was a smart move, but Haynes is so enthralled by the stylistic opportunities that his plan affords, as he was in the fifties-hued “Far from Heaven,” that he ends up more interested in the angles than in anything else, leaving the elusive Dylan, once again, to slip away.

Well, I think that Haynes would answer the latter point by saying that it was never his intention to capture the “elusive Dylan” in the first place; he’s supposed to “slip away.” That’s kind of the point.

However, I would note that in the round of promotional interviews he’s doing, Haynes is opining rather more freely on the subject of the “real” Bob Dylan.

But enough about it now, since I have yet to even see the film myself.

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