Tom Dunne: Bob Dylan film is a glorious take on our darling young one 

A Complete Unknown is spot-on in its use of Dylan to tell the story of what it was like to come of age in 1960s America 
Tom Dunne: Bob Dylan film is a glorious take on our darling young one 

Monica Barbaro and Timothée Chalamet in the Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown.

A Complete Unknown is magic from beginning to end. If the object of cinema is a Cinema Paradiso type escape that leaves you untethered from reality and floating on cloud nine then this was a masterclass. I thought I was out of Dylan World, but Chalamet has brought me back in.

This may not chime with other reviews you’ve read, but so be it. There are those who don’t get Dylan and those who think he can’t sing. And then there are those who think the 1960s only started when he released Highway ’61 Revisited.

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