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Nick Curtis

A Complete Unknown review: Timothée Chalamet is extraordinary as Bob Dylan in this rich biopic

Elle Fanning and Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown - (Macall Polay)

You don’t have to be a superfan or a folkie to get thoroughly engrossed in this richly detailed biopic from James Mangold, in which Timothée Chalamet uncannily recreates the young Bob Dylan.

This is an extraordinary performance, far deeper than an impersonation, that charts the progress of the singer-songwriter, the music scene he entered and altered, and events in the wider world during times that were urgently a’changin’.

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