Say what you want about the merits of James Mangold’s super-hyped new Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown, just don’t call it a biopic.
“It's a way of putting your movie down,” says the director and cowriter of the film, which stars Timothée Chalamet and will be released on Christmas Day amid a blizzard of rave reviews. “It's a term used as a pejorative to indicate this cradle-to-grave story with lots of cameos of famous people marching in and out. When people use that term, they mean something that feels like it doesn't earn its own emotional gravity—that it's living off the ‘it really happened’ fumes to give itself an integrity that the actual work of art may not have.”
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