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It’s Everyone Around Bob Dylan That Makes A Complete Unknown Worth Watching
Timothée Chalamet is good as the enigmatic musician, but this is really a movie about what it’s like to bob around in the wake of greatness.
But if you’re James Mangold, whose 2005 Johnny Cash biopic was one of the main texts spoofed in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and you have Timothée Chalamet lined up to play young Dylan — a role that was guaranteed to get the actor an Oscar nomination as soon as it was announced — well, you’re not going to make something that breaks wildly with convention. A Complete Unknown benefits from an array of worthy supporting performances, among them a bell-voiced and increasingly exasperated Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, a vulnerable Elle Fanning as girlfriend Suze Rotolo (named Sylvie Russo in the film), and Boyd Holbrook doing a swerv-y rendition of Johnny Cash. The comparison it brings to mind isn’t Walk the Line at all — it’s Amadeus, only instead of a single jealous Salieri it has a crew of earnest folkies, many of whom are hugely gifted in their own right, hoping to hitch their movement to Dylan’s rising star until he shakes them all off in frustration.
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