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Podcast: The Long Take Review
Episode: A Complete Unknown Review
Description: Find someone who looks at you the way everyone in A Complete Unknown looks at Timothee Chalamet playing Bob Dylan. For James Mangold’s film, covering Dylan’s four-year journey from first arriving in New York City through “going electric” in 1965, one debate amongst critics centers on the representation of Bob Dylan’s genius: does the film fall into the stereotypical biopic trap of putting its subject on a pedestal, unabashedly touting his generational talent and nothing more? Or does Mangold offer a more nuanced, complicated story, subverting the tropes that he arguably codified in Walk The Line (2005...