Monday, October 8, 2007

Todd Haynes makes experimentalism accesible



In Todd Haynes upcoming Dylan biopic, he crafts a story in which 7 different actors play the role of Bob Dylan.

This includes a woman, an African American Child, a middle aged man and several other itterations.

Haynes other work, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, Far From Heaven, has always straddled the line between commercial viability and complete experimentalim.

This new film promises to be no different.

It's plot is supposedly completely fractured, it's style constantly shifting from low-grade video to rtich black and white.


But what a welcome jolt to the recently trendy biopic picture.

Musicians lives are often portrayed as contrived and predictable, but if anyone deserves something more nuanced than that, it is Bob Dylan.

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