Star of new biopic deserves gold medal for effort, but you can only wonder about the target audience
Timothée Chalamet: A Complete Unknown soundtrack review – In what world does this Dylanless Bob Dylan album make sense?Timothée Chalametwould cast the actor as a baby-faced Robert Zimmerman in the rock biopic A Complete Unknown. Once you’ve danced with the Oompa Loompas, negotiating Subterranean Homesick Blues should be a cinch.movie that Chalamet learned more than 30 Dylan originals, 17 of which are gathered for the official movie soundtrack. All are played and performed by Chalamet.
A Complete Unknown is something else entirely – and represents a trip into uncharted territory. It is a Dylan album without any Bob Dylan, Chalamet doing his best to channel the singer’s gruff romantic spirit. He attempts this while being at pains not to tip into caricature. As he told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe recently, “It’s not the impression Olympics.”Babygirl review: Five stars for a fearless Nicole Kidman’s dive into a hot erotic mess.
Both movie and soundtrack take issue with the idea of Dylan as more myth than man. He is presented as a genius with feet of clay – a conscious creative decision on the part of Mangold, as he recentlyVariety. “How much of an enigma can a man be who’s released 55 records? How much more do you want? He has given us more personal output than almost any artist in history.
On the screen that song is presented as a millstone around the neck of the singer, who wants to follow his inner artistic voice and not be co-opted into the folk protest movement: he’s a songwriter, not a full-time advocate for societal justice. You can only imagine the abuse he would receive were he a young artist coming of age in the social-media era.
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