Timothée Chalamet (New York, 29 years old) walks through a Berlin surrendered to his feet, and for a contest that presents this Friday as a highlight in gala session A Complete Unknowby James Mangold, Bob Dylan’s life since he arrived in New York in 1961, to try to see his idol Woody Guthrie, hospitalized by a degenerative neuronal disease, until he went to the electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival of 1965. Or what is the same: from that it was nobody until he had to deal – in a bad way – with a huge fame.
In that bargaining with the capcious questions, Chalamet, on the other hand, has managed to take advantage of a double speed. In some of his answers he has spoken as if he stepped on embedded, so quickly that it was not clear what he meant. In others, for looking for the precise word, he has ended up killing his statements. And he has always repeated that he could not speak on behalf of Dylan “that he is still alive and cooling for Malibu.” However, the Oscar candidate (it is already his second nomination and has not yet turned 30) has said some interesting things.
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After confessing that he ate a lot to gain weight and approach Dylan’s physicist in the sixties (”With everything, in that five years his body changed quite a lot, it shows that his life changed radically”), Chalamet has faced how he saw the present with “ The rise of populism and the extreme right ”compared to the convulsive times that Dylan, and the rest of the world, crossed in the early sixties. “Actually, I do not necessarily be a political issue,” he said. “But I think he is in the nature of his music to notice that care must be taken with those who skip the role of saviors. I’m not going to speak for Dylan. But my interpretation is that you have to be careful with the Salvadorian figures. That is what I have learned in this movie, that let’s distrust anyone who says he has a solution. And honestly, that is a warning that was also in Dune (his other great premiere of the season) ”.
Why did he get into this chamet jaleo? “First, I was attracted to the incomparable artist Bob Dylan and the huge legacy he left,” he explained in an absolutely crowded press wheel hall. “I felt that Dylan was leaving a road map for other artists to follow it. And that seemed tremendously inspired. Of course, there was the gift of the incredible writer script by James Mangold. I like this movie that would make (press) for a year. ” And he declared his passion for the musician: “Bob Dylan, the man, the artist, has become a brilliant light for me and a guide until today. His individuality and his rejection of being part of the dough inspires me. Did he have an excuse to study this man during that five years? What a gift! ”
Dylan fame exploded in his face, more or less like Chalamet. And that also referred to the press: “The sequences that are seen in the film about how fans pursued or in the Pennebaker documentary Don’t Look Back They are things that I could identify almost viscerally, ”he said. “I think the process of what I have lived in the last seven years is very similar. But it is not very interesting to talk about it because I have not reached any conclusion. Just that you must keep your head beaten, as Bob did after Blonde on Blonde and how it disappeared after the motorcycle accident. ”
The Franco-American explained that Bob Dylan “bothered him to be called on Salvador from his generation” and that in reality his political letters served him “to express what happened to himself”; that Dylan “was the most man cool of the moment and this film honors him ”, and that the actor has never been in a band or music touched:” So doing so has been impressive now. “
A Complete Unknow It is almost completely based on the exceptional work of Chalamet, which meets the young Dylan Folk. The rest of the actors are also up to it: Monica Barbaro finely embodies Joan Baez; Edward Norton stands out as Pete Seeger, and so on one another. Another thing is the numerous historical and biographical -brotant licenses, which will anger and the musical historians and Dylan’s fans – of a wandering script, which is not clear to what to bet on: such a polyhedral character should not have drained by Mangold fingers, filmmaker for adult spectators. He already directed a biopic musical, that of Johnny Cash, In the tightrope, And he has accumulated good jobs in his filmography as Cop Land, interrupted innocence, Le Mans’66 o Logan, although he slipped in Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny. And here he has not delivered, of course, his best film.