Sanitising Bob Dylan A Complete Unknown obscures the tumult of the Sixties and the radical politics of the folk scene

A Complete Unknown obscures the tumult of the Sixties and the radical politics of the folk scene.

Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro are excellent in their respective roles as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez .

The movie’s plot and character development are thin, however, barely enough to keep the viewer involved.

The Byrds ’ version of Mr Tambourine Man ’ became the top single in the US and UK in 1965 .

It was the birth of electric folk-rock and Dylan took note, even if the visionary McGuinn received little credit then and none in this film.

The film fails to tell how evanescent that prominence of folk music was.

The left-wing politics of folk music is routinely ignored in contemporary recounts.

The Soviet Union saw the folk community as a conduit to infiltrating American society.

Woody Guthrie aligned himself with the Communist front.

Pete Seeger was a card-carrying Communist , who defended Joseph Stalin for many years .