It reaches theaters “a complete stranger”: looking for the answer to that enigma called Bob Dylan

This Thursday reaches the rooms of the Argentine cinemas A complete strangerthe movie of James Mangold starring the Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet How a young man Bob Dylan. A story based on the book “Dylan Goes Electric!” of Elijah Wald How was your controversial passage from folk to electric sound.

“Set in the vibrant New York music scene of the early 60 ‘ A revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. While establishing his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he feels dissatisfied with the folk movement and, refusing to be pigeonholed, makes a controversial decision that resonates culturally throughout the world. “In this way the plot of the film, the decision of the director of Walk The Line (Biographical film about Johnny Cash) is to cut a particular moment within the enough story of Bob Dylan.

From its enigmatic appearance on the folk scene with questions floating in the air: Who really Bob Dylan? What is your true origin? Until its passage to electric sound. The answer to these questions can be found through their music, but also of everything that surrounds it.

A complete stranger: Bob Dylan’s faces

Mangold’s film finds in its protagonist a powerful attraction. Timothée Chalamet not only Interpret a master version of the enigmatic American singer -songwriterbut also sings Dylan’s songs (and does not do it badly). But not only with a great leading actor a great film is made. It is through the secondary characters that the spectators can see the different faces of the author of Hymns how “Blowin ‘in the Wind” and “The Times they are a-changin ‘”.

Relationships (musical, sentimental and friendship as appropriate) with Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger And a girlfriend named Sylvie Russo, based on Dylan’s former Suze Rotoloare the clues we have to try to decipher Dylan as an artist and how person.

Edward Norton It is a hopeful melancholic sevencolic with the appearance of Dylan and everything that he can do for folk music. Monica Barbaro It is a revelation like Báez, Dylan’s intermittent lover. Boyd Holbrook It is a disruptive cash and a great occasional advisor in those early years. AND Elle Fanning She is captivating as Russo, the sweet girl whose social commitment seems to be deep in Dylan.

Another key situation to understand the young Bob Dylan is to take into account the situation in the world at the beginning of the sixties and mangold knows. The world turns around, women fall in love with it, musicians seek to be close to them, fans demand their autograph, record executives fight for their firm. The Cuban missile crisis merges with Kennedy’s murder and the march on Washington. All this shapes and molds the person so much and the musician of black glasses.

There is no doubt that a complete stranger is a film that will delight Dylan fans, but it is also a great opportunity for new generations to know this fundamental artist of music and literature. This time The answer is not just floating in the wind, it will also be floating in theaters of cinemas.

From Searchlight Pictures, a complete stranger is directed by James Mangold. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, along with Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Buzt and Scoot McNairy. He arrives at theaters on January 30.