A bio-pic is difficult to get right, but a bio-pic of a living musical legend — in this case Bob Dylan — seems too daunting to contemplate.
With “I’m Not There,” however, director Todd Haynes pulls it off with the cunning audacity of a master card-player. The result is a fiendishly clever package that dazzles the mind but, in the end, remains curiously remote and elusive; Haynes returns all cards to the deck, the lights come on and it’s as if the movie never happened.
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