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One of the real pleasure of the movie is the great acting from people who have just a few moments on screen. A full-frontal formalist assault on the very concept of celebrity bio-pics drifting and riffing on contradictions, drop-dead funny, and easily the most go-for-broke, energizing movie Ive seen all year. Buy I’m Not There dvd Im Not There is an uncompromising, beautifully wrought essay on identity, artistic and otherwise. Haynes, astutely perhaps, has created a biopic with little time for justice or indeed any of the reverence and piety of recent films such as Walk the Line or Ray. Director Todd Haynes takes an artistic leap, I just dont want to catch all of the finished product. So self-aware and dull, you wonder whats the point of Haynes being experimental if his experiment doesnt yield something thats compelling or, at the very least, entertaining. Insight might have been a goal, but theres no insight here.