riter-director Todd Haynes, who directed and co-wrote (with Oren Moverman) I'm Not There, a multipart biographical essay on Bob Dylan, must have spent endless hours pondering, "If I were a singer-songwriter "man of parts" like Dylan, who would I get to play me?"

Haynes - who once told the story of Karen Carpenter with Barbie dolls, and made a clever copy of a '50s movie with his "Far From Heaven" - has created an interesting psycho-cultural-biographical mix. With this Dylan-esque montage, he's managed to make the film look and feel like the artsy '60s while honoring its subject.

But the entire meaning of the film is left up to the audience, the same way a Dylan song falls on all ears differently. What he has created is not one but a collection of performers who represent different phases of Dylan's life.

Six different ‘aspects’ of Bob are embodied by seven different actors, from the young Marcus Carl Franklin (black and 11-years-old) as a Woody Guthrie-obsessed youngster, to the inspired Cate Blanchett as the folk-to-electric wired Dylan, to Richard Gere as a surreal Billy the Kid incarnation.