Todd Haynes delivers this dazzling, experimental take on the life of popular music's most revered and enigmatic artist: Bob Dylan. By casting six different actors to portray several incarnations of the groundbreaking troubadour Haynes is in keeping with the nature of the impossible-to-pin-down Dylan. The result is a challenging, sprawling work that spans several decades and genres. Woody is a young black child with a folk music obsession; Jack Rollins is an upstart folksinger whose protest songs have ignited an entire generation; Arthur a Rimbaud-esque figure who has begun to embrace a new form of lyrical poetry; Robbie is a well-known actor whose marriage to the lovely Claire crumbles under the weight of his lifestyle; Billy is a slippery frontiersman who echoes Dylan's infatuation with the Old West and American folklore; and, finally, there is the substance-abusing, confrontational Jude, who represents Dylan in the turbulent mid-1960s. Much in the same way that Dylan appropriated a vast array of musical styles to create his own vernacular, Haynes does the same thing, using his expansive knowledge of movie history to pay homage to a variety of movements and genres.