Starring an Oscar-tipped Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold’s biopic retells Dylan’s electric early career, but it resonates with today’s toxic fame and politics. The creative team explain their process – and what Dylan makes of it
Starring an Oscar-tipped Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold’s biopic retells Dylan’s electric early career, but it resonates with today’s toxic fame and politics. The creative team explain their process – and what Dylan makes of it
But the film hardly needs its subject’s endorsement. Early reviews have been largely rhapsodic. Chalamet has been tipped for an Oscar for his remarkable performance – singing and playing live, he inhabits Dylan’s voice in a way that is almost uncanny – although it’s worth pointing out that he is just part of a hugely impressive cast.
“But she was really not fussed about the film, truly. I think I was more concerned on her behalf than she was for herself. I was sort of saying: you deserve your own biopic! So many biopics with different chapters of your life! And she said: ‘I’m just sitting in my back yard watching the birds.’ You know: I lived it, I did it.”
And to its immense credit, A Complete Unknown isn’t hagiographic in its account of Dylan’s rise to fame. As he rapidly ascends from Seeger’s young protege to the folk scene’s brightest star, to an artist who single-handedly alters the face of pop music, you are left in no doubt of Dylan’s genius – it’s very good at capturing the shock and awe of audiences encountering Blowin’ in the Wind or The Times They Are A-Changin’ not as august standards, but freshly written material.
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