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‘A Complete Unknown’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes As Young Bob Dylan In James Mangold’s Thrilling Musical Drama
A review of ' A Complete Unknown' with Timothee Chalamet astonishing as the young Bob Dylan still searching for his inner self as he hits New YorkCity.
He was catching the tail end of a folk music tradition, one especially represented for him in the form of the legendary Woody Guthrie (nicely played in his final days by Scott McNairy) who Dylan idolizes and simply wanted to meet. By the end of this film and a concert at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival where Dylan shocked the world by “going electric” we will have witnessed the birth of a new legend, a game changer who would eventually win Oscars and Nobel Prizes and not show up to accept either. Few things have ever literally signaled the end of an era and the beginning of a new one like this event, and it is given thrilling life in its recreation by Mangold who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jay Cocks which adds many layers of the human side of Dylan that the book did not go into with this kind of personal detail.
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