The film's greatest quality is Thimothey Chalamey's subtle portrayal of the singular singer Bob Dylan.
But right from the start of the film, the colors, so conventional in today's Hollywood industry, let us know that the staging will not be consistent with the subject. And we see that the settings, the frames, the secondary characters and the narration are also too close to main stream cinema to match Dylan's poetry and subversiveness.
At this level of literature, love of truth…
The filmmaker Kloft gives to Leni Riefenstahl a voice to defend her image, thanks to the huge archives she left behind... but he also uses counterpoints to show that she is a good liar. The viewer has the opportunity to judge her awful and/or to be touch by her incredible character. This doc. is fair, it's not a propaganda against her, otherwise the film would have been like nazi mindset. Cinema is always manipulation of images, only the filmmaker intention makes the difference !
The greates cinematic masterpiece of all time. Perfect narration, perfect timing, perfect casting, perfect staging, perfect music, perfect metaphor of what is cinema... but mostly a huge demonstration of how a humain being is not equivalent to his image ! The inner soul determines our relationships with others.
