12-25-2024 4:52am

Like A Rolling Stone,

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New York, 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history.

The film also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie.

Directed by:

James Mangold

Screenplay by:

James Mangold and Jay Cocks

Produced by:

Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, Bob Bookman, Peter Jaysen, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold

Cast:

Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy

movie review

It’s Everyone Around Bob Dylan That Makes A Complete Unknown Worth Watching

By Alison Willmore, a Vulture film critic

Timothée Chalamet is good as the enigmatic musician, but this is really a movie about what it’s like to bob around in the wake of greatness. Photo: Macall Polay/Searchlight

How do you make a movie about an artist as unknowable as Bob Dylan? If you’re Todd Haynes, you don’t try to find the man’s center at all. You splinter him into pieces of his persona, with different actors each playing some fragment rather than attempting to represent Dylan in his entirety. If you’re the Coen brothers, you sidle up alongside Dylan with a narrative set in his world but also in his shadow, ending with your also-ran of a musician-main character going outside to meet his beatdown destiny while the future star performs on the stage he just vacated. But if you’re James Mangold, whose 2005 Johnny Cash biopic was one of the main texts spoofed in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, and you have Timothée Chalamet FINISH READING HERE