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An absorbing and triumphant biopic focusing on Bob Dylan's arrival in New York: BRIAN VINER reviews A Complete Unknown
Director and co-writer Mangold has crafted an absorbing film, which focuses on those few pivotal years between Dylan's arrival in New York City in 1961 as an anonymous teenage.
Director and co-writer Mangold has crafted an absorbing film, which focuses on those few pivotal years between Dylan's arrival in New York City in 1961 as an anonymous teenage troubadour from Minnesota, and the night in 1965 'that split the Sixties' and marked a turning-point in popular music. The film begins with Dylan, newly arrived in Greenwich Village clutching only his guitar and a newspaper cutting about his hero, Woody Guthrie (Scott McNairy), taking a cab to New Jersey where the protest-music icon is hospitalised with a degenerative disease. Within weeks of his hospital-room performance for Guthrie and Seeger, Dylan is a fixture on the Village folk scene, hailed by the New York Times as 'a cross between a choirboy and a beatnik', sleeping with Baez while living with his girlfriend (Elle Fanning as the thinly-disguised and long-suffering Suze Rotolo, here named Sylvie), roaring around dangerously on his motorbike and obsessively writing songs at all hours, with none of the above interrupting his 60-a-day cigarette habit.
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