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Chalamet nails the enigma that is Bob Dylan ...and he even sings and plays the guitar himself in this five-star ode to the legend and his music! BRIAN VINER reviews A Complete Unknown
Bob Dylan fans will instantly recognise the title of James Mangold's splendid biopic, in which the great man is superbly played by Timothée Chalamet.
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. Nick Hamm’s film is inspired by Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 play about the medieval Swiss folk hero (Claes Bang) who led resistance to the bullying Habsburgs and famously was compelled to fire his crossbow at an apple balanced on his son’s head. Sylvia Kristel’s bored, polyamorous housewife from the 1974 film is here reinvented as a sleek hotel-chain executive (Noemie Merlant), sent to Hong Kong where she is meant to sack an icy manager (Naomi Watts) but gets distracted by her own thrashing libido.
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