Film lover and Bob Dylan lovers, don’t forget that tonight the Ventnor Film Society will be presenting
I’m Not There.
Todd Haynes’ film about Bob Dylan, is one of the greatest rock’n’roll swindles of all time stars six brilliant actors who all play Dylan.
Dylan himself was so bewitched by the project that, for the first time, he actually yielded up his precious song rights.
The sprawling anthems provide a spine to Haynes’s fabulous mulch of newsreel and concert footage. He’s perfectly aware that the history of indie cinema chimes wonderfully with Dylan’s growing power.
The crazy gamble – casting different actors to express different parts of Dylan’s elusive career – is repaid by magic. Everyone takes on a name, job, and demeanour that is only inches away from the musician’s public life.
Christian Bale, Ben Wishaw, and Heath Ledger are unspeakably brilliant as various shades of Dylan. Cate Blanchett is simply fabulous as the frizzy-haired 1960s troubadour who is staked out by the BBC’s media inquisitor, Mr Jones, to test if Dylan is a fraud.
Bits and Bobs:
Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens
Single Ticket: £4.50 (£3.50 Concessionary)
Concessionary tickets are available to students, senior citizens and the unwaged.
