
Last year, the Amy Winehouse movie “Back to Black” highlighted the pitfalls of musical biopics. Contrastingly, critics and audiences appear satisfied with James Mangold’s portrayal of Bob Dylan’s early life in “A Complete Unknown”. This endeavor is quite a bold move, tackling one of the 20th century’s most pervasive myths – a groundbreaking artist who has sold over 125 million albums, garnered Grammys, an Oscar, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. One might expect die-hard Dylan fans to be jubilant.
(Note: The apology to Heinrich Böll acknowledges that singing in the shower does not meet the criteria for winning a Nobel Prize in Literature.)