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This review was originally published on December 18, 2024.
How do you make a movie about an artist as unknowable as Bob Dylan?
If youre Todd Haynes, you dont make a run at find the mans center at all.
Instead of treating him like a protagonist,A Complete Unknownapproaches the musician like a force.
Something similarly complicated is reflected on Barbaros face after Dylan takes the stage after Baez.
But his part is all about providing hard surfaces for the other characters to bounce off of.
IsA Complete Unknowna good Bob Dylan biopic?
Its the stuff of an album cover.
It does something more achievable shows us what its like to bob around the wake of greatness.
