Complete Unknown (2024) James Mangold directed biopic of Bob Dylan's life from discovery until he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. I'm hostile to Hollywood turning Timothee Chalamet into the quintessential beta leading man, but his skinny ass works as Robert Zimmerman and he plays brooding well. Casting against type they found a real babe to play Joan Baez, Monica Barbaro. You'll remember her as one of the token female pilots in the Top Gun sequel, hidden behind too many flight suits. I'm thankful that it didn't start with a flashback like every other biopic in this century. Instead the film starts with Dylan hitchhiking to New York to see his hospitalized hero, Woodie Guthrie and it ends with a moment between the two after he goes electric. Edward Norton plays folk musician, Pete Seeger, as a consummate gentleman. Elle Fanning plays a composite of Dylan's girlfriends not Joan Baez. It gets nearly all of the good songs in but somehow skips JUST LIKE A WOMAN, a perfect summation of how crazy dating Joan Baez must have been.
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