One of the most memorable American filmic exercises of 2007

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2008)

On route to redefining the modern biopic, Todd Haynes has also made one of the most memorable American filmic exercises of the past year by fusing style, substance while finally being percipient on Bob Dylan's once mythic hipster groove. A cast list that drew bated breaths is also one that complements Haynes's dauntless reach beyond the boundaries of narratives, performances and subject. His portrait of Dylan, is an interwoven collage of inhabited incarnations that not only pays tribute to a singular artist's personal and social identities, but to the many instances of creative process and its resulting capricious chaos that have left its slippery mark in our minds and as such, is as much about Todd Haynes as it is about Bob Dylan. With droll narrative swagger reminiscent of Todd Solondz's equally mind-bending "Palindromes", where multiple actors play a single character through different forms and times, Haynes gleefully glides through the eras, remarking on the cults of celebrity that have defined them and the fantasia we prefer to remember.