FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Don't Look Back

How about disenchanting a legend today? Bob Dylan, the lonely, inaccessible, melancholy poet. Here we experience an impressive exercise of self-exposure. The result is an unattractive portrait that has absolutely nothing to do with the lonely poet. Bob Dylan and his friends act silly and immature. He's vengeful, petty and not very smart. Just like the rest of us. Remarkable, because Dylan must have approved this movie! He had a documentary produced in which he humiliated himself. Basically we experience the technology of Cinema Verite. Step by step we follow Dylan on his England tour in 1965, we see the good as well as the bad. No sooner do we notice the cuts. Everything seems to be recorded chronologically (which it is NOT!). Dylan boasts to his disciples by crushing a journalist. He wouldn't need newspapers, he would have made it up without newspapers! Then this party scene at the hotel: someone throws a glass out the window. The hotel manager appears, wants to know how it was. Dylan gives him obscene names, like a stubborn child. And the truth about this "working class hero"? "You'd go off the stands in an hour if you printed the truth about anything. I could explain to you why I'm not a folk singer, but you'd never understand." (etc etc etc etc etc).