In case you didn’t see it on AOL, Bennett Miller’s video for Bob Dylan’s When The Deal Goes Down, starring Scarlett Johansson, is now available via YouTube.

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Addendum 9/01/2006 10:41 am: I’m a little bit in two minds about the video. It’s beautiful — the most beautiful “music video” I can ever remember seeing. Beauty is not something one associates with music videos. Crassness, mawkishness and luridness — yes; any genuine beauty, no. On the other hand, it can’t help but distract from the song a little. The images the song creates in one’s mind are the images to savor, after all, rather than having them filled in for you, however prettily, by Bennett Miller and Scarlett Johansson. But, on yet another hand, the nice thing about this video is that it has nothing obviously to do with the song. It’s not trying to literally visualize the images in the song, or make up any story for the song — it’s just providing a parallel visual experience, which, with its ever-burning-out images of life, family, and love, reflects off of the song in an interesting and poignant way.

So, overall, kudos to Bennett Miller. And the expressiveness of Johansson’s face, throughout, is really rather stunning, isn’t it?

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