Visual poetry through music
LA TimesTimothée Chalamet portrays Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” a rhythmic biopic unpacking his rise to rock ’n’ roll stardom. The spark behind his musical journey is the “Freewheelin’” singer’s decision to uproot from his Minnesota hometown for New York to play a song he wrote for folk icon Woody Guthrie, who lies unwell in a hospital. Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael embraced the grit of the New York streets, capturing the texture with vintage anamorphic lenses, a decision that allowed for “an intimate closeup” while “not isolating the character from the environment. “As the story progresses, and he decides to go electric, the colors become more vibrant, and we are a little bit faster-paced with the whole language of our storytelling,” he says.
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