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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (15)

By February 3, 2025February 4th, 2025Film Club

🎞️ Release Date: 17th January

Going into this film I knew nothing about Bob Dylan and I left the film not loving him. However I do not say this as a negative statement. I think a biopic that is more interested in telling the truth rather than a rose tinted view is admirable. I didn’t find the film particularly gripping but the music numbers were definitely enough to bring me back in. 

Synopsis: Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Book tickets to see the film at Cineworld here

⭐ Festival Film Club Rating: 6.7/10

🎞️ Cast: Elle Fanning, Dan Fogler, Boyd Holbrook, Scoot McNairy, Edward Norton, Norbert Leo Butz, Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro

Reviewed by Amy Lorenz ✏️