The Bob Dylan mystery machine

The Eternal Dylan Mystery is a line of defence taken by the film-makers in calling the movie A Complete Unknown .

The film covers Dylan ’s rapid rise to superstardom (“to quote Mr Freud , I get quite paranoid,” he wrote in one of his letters to Cash.

It is exactly this slippery, silverfish quality that makes Timothée Chalamet more than bearable playing him.

The film illuminates forgotten concepts: like the controversy in trying to write your own songs in an era when performing the standards was a sign of authenticity.

There are two musical high points: one , when he first plays “ The Times They Are A-Changin ’” The decision to fictionalise his girlfriend Suze Rotolo , and call her Sylvie Russo”, is strange, especially when it is quite clearly Suze .