All the talk will be about the remarkable lead performance but creating an environment for Timothee Chalamet to shine is as much down to the subtle camera, nuanced lighting and family on-set atmosphere that DP Phedon Papamichael achieves with regular directing partner James Mangold.
According to Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, when Bob Dylan asked Director James Mangold what A Complete Unknown was about, he pitched it as “this kid who grows up in Minnesota in a Jewish family and because of the smaller community there he feels suffocated and so he leaves and goes to New York. There he finds a new family and new friends but after a while, he feels suffocated by that. So he leaves them...
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