Bob Dylan's Cometable rise is made clear and, above all, audible by an incredible chalamet.
He has been making music for around 65 years and sings his own texts with his distinctive voice that are so brilliant that they even brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature. We are of course talking about Bob Dylan. Since biopics are currently booming about musicians, it is no surprise if James Mangold with “Like a Complete Unknown” now presents a film about this exceptional artist.
Scene from “Like a Complete Unknown”
Classic biopic over five crucial years
In 2007, Todd Haynes chose a rather experimental approach for “I'm not there” and had six actors embody different aspects of the multi-layered puzzling figure. Swiss chard, on the other hand, remains much more down -to -earth and tells of a precisely defined period of time. It begins with the fact that the young Dylan moves almost without money, but with a guitar in his hand, in the early 1960s to New York and starts a comet -like climb there.
First in the folk scene, in the sign of his model Woody Guthrie, which he visited and actively supported by the mentor Pete Seeger (Edward Norton). After various purely acoustic concerts, the New Port Folk Festival will be scanded when Dylan reaches for the electric guitar and reinvented itself with a band as a rock'n'Roller. A man who goes his way, an artist who follows his calling, a musician who changes from folk to rock – these are the guidelines of the biopics, which also meet the literary template, which is Elijah Wald's non -fiction book “Dylan Goes Electric” from 2015.
Scene from “Like a Complete Unknown”
Chalamet makes the music
The young film star makes the role of the young music star so much that you don't know exactly whether you have Timothée Dylan or Bob Chalamet in front of you. When he sings, plays the guitar, blows into the harmonica or processes the piano, he produces the original tones and can do without playback. He is a real versatile artist and is more than fair, who is also recovering again and again and already goes through different appearances and different vocal styles in the relatively short period of 1961-1965. Chalamet brings it up with a uncanny certainty to always hit the right tone.
Monica Barbaro is just as sensational as Joan Baez, and Elle Fanning forms a sympathetic rest in the rushed musician life as a down-to-earth Dylan friend Sylvie Russo (actually meant Suze Rotolo). A special bonus is, so to speak, that at Mangold 20 years after “Walk the Line” Johnny Cash is now again (this time in the form of Boyd Holbrook from “Narcos” and “The Sandman”) – here he is only a secondary figure here Dylan essentially on his way.
Scene from “Like a Complete Unknown”
Speaking music and equipment orgy
Often no spoken words are needed because the sung is enough to comment on what is happening. For example, Sylvie/SZUE suddenly recognizes through a song that her way together with Dylan is finally over, and Bob's farewell meeting with Guthrie in the hospital also becomes a really heartbreaking event due to the corresponding musical accompaniment.
However, this production is not only ingenious and musically, but also with the equipment, real miracles have been done to ensure the most authentic journey through time in the 60s. We can be sure that every detail fits here – especially Dylan at that time was reconstructed with huge effort and the furnishings were precisely reproduced thanks to photographs. Every coffee stain is right, as Chalamet jokingly meant (although he is undoubtedly right). So if you want to develop a feeling for this long -past era, you cannot buy a travel ticket, but buy a cinema card.
Scene from “Like a Complete Unknown”
Mangold always stays on the safe side in his staging, but “Like a Complete Unknown” is happy to release us. is up to the stage at a concert unexpectedly chalamet so that they play and sing together for a song at least for a song.
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