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Masked and Anonymous

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Masked and Anonymous

Starring: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Jessica Lange

Director: Larry Charles

The film: Bob Dylan has always polarised audiences; people either love him or loathe him. So, your reaction to this vanity project for one of the music world's more enigmatic characters will be influenced by your opinion of the man himself.

Masked and Anonymous is a lot like a Dylan song: you can take it as meaning something deep, or nothing at all. And like a Dylan song, it is crammed full of strange characters, wordplay and pop-culture references.

Dylan stars as frazzled rock legend, Jack Fate, who, on release from prison, is lured into playing a benefit concert to be beamed across the strife-torn - and unnamed - nation in which the action is set. You could say it is Dylan playing Dylan. And he mumbles his way through proceedings in his own inimitable, tumble-down style.

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