No Direction Home

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★ USA 2005, Martin Scorsese, 205 minutes, FSK 6, original English version with German subtitles ★

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Minnesota in 1941, the man and musician Bob Dylan is an absolutely curious, blatantly ambivalent phenomenon of extraordinariness within the music history of the past and current century. With little fan and audience orientation, Bob Dylan has often managed to evade the public massively, despite his occasional public presence. Martin Scorsese succeeded in documenting a great exception to this attitude in 2005 with the extensive film No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.

As a masterful director of musical documentaries, Martin Scorsese once again captivates us with his incredibly dense, sensitive, perspective-rich and ultimately very personal portrayal of an exceptional artist, whose arrival in Greenwich Village and scandalous Judas shout during a concert in Manchester, UK in 1966 were musical revolutions. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan offers a multi-layered feast for fans of folk music in general and for those of the disagreeable singer in particular, whose songs have been a lasting inspiration for countless artists and other people for generations. But even if a precious, richly differentiated and quite unusually sympathetic impression of the person and personality of Bob Dylan is created here, the crude fascination of his generally detached, critical and incorruptible spirit of individual independence is wisely retained. And there is - fortunately - no answer to his significant question "How does it feel?" here either.