A review of the film 'A Complete Unknown', focusing on Timothée Chalamet's performance as Bob Dylan and the film's exploration of the folk music scene of the 1960s.
If you’re in your 70s, you may remember but for the rest of us, that’s the feeling “ A Complete Unknown ” wants to capture. The movie opens as teenaged Dylan ( Timothée Chalamet ) arrives in New York from his native Minnesota. Almost immediately, he meets folk legends Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) and Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), whose “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh” is both the first and last song in the film.
In a blink of an eye, he has released “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” an album so packed with enduring songs that it now feels like a greatest hits record: “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Girl From the North Country,” “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” are all on it. “A Complete Unknown” is about the milieu in which those songs were created and the enigmatic man who created them. Writer/director James Mangold, who also made the Johnny Cash/June Carter Cash movie “Walk the Line,” uses creamy, burnished visuals to suggest the recent past and re-create the potent Greenwich Village scene that produced so many memorable artists (Joan Baez floats in and out of Dylan’s circle, too). Dylan wasn’t yet famous and Mangold manages to capture a feeling of freshness and discovery with a smart musical tactic. Many of the iconic songs are sung not in performance scenes, where they might appear to be already carved in stone, but in Dylan’s apartment, singing either to himself or to an audience of one. It feels almost like we’re discovering the songs as he does.keep growing broader, is sensational as Dylan. He shares a slightness with the singer but, other than that, doesn’t look or sound much like him. Still, he gets at some essence that makes us believ
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