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Why A Complete Unknown should win the best picture Oscar
Despite being freewheelin’ with the facts, this Bob Dylan biopic has delighted fans old and new, with Timothée Chalamet proving more than just a Zimmerman mimic
James Mangold’s biopic – told very much with the backing, though not the guiding hand of Dylan Inc – somehow achieved the impossible: keeping the people with working knowledge of the musical rota at the Gaslight Cafe as interested as those with little more than an acquaintance with TikTok covers of Blowin’ in the Wind. A Complete Unknown captures a moment when a 19-year-old weirdo from Minnesota could arrive in Manhattan, somehow find a place to stay and scrape by ( not that we see much detail on this) on the money he received after playing and passing around a hat in dingy folk clubs. Some of the main criticisms of the film can be comfortably filed under This Is Not a Documentary: principally the historical accuracy of moments such as the “Judas” cry, relocated from a crowd member in Manchester, England, to Newport folk festival, and Seeger’s anger at Dylan’s decision to go electric.
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