A surprisingly lively, persuasive Bob Dylan biopic is a wonderful vehicle for its star.
Except! A Complete Unknown is, much to the surprise of this critic, not at all staid and perfunctory. Even a skeptic can be swept away by its heady mix of laidback assessment and genuine awe. The film does loosely follow a plot: a young Dylan arrives in New York from Minnesota and falls under the aegis of Pete Seeger on his way to forging a path out of folk and into the revolutionary mainstream.
Classic songs like “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” and “Like a Rolling Stone” are both nostalgically remembered and discovered anew in the film, a magic trick that keenly approximates what it might have been to first see Dylan strumming away in some downtown club and be staggered by his prodigious acumen. Which may all sound grandiose. But A Complete Unknown is a disarmingly humble film, mellow in mood and cadence. It ambles through the early-mid 1960s, in a vividly rendered period New York City.
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