Official Trailer
Our Review
- Timothee Chalamet, Edward Norton, Boyd Holbrook, Elle Fanning
- January 17th 2025
- 140
- James Mangold
Timothée Chalamet plays singer-songwriter Bob Dylan as he arrives on the New York folk scene in the 1960s.
How do you make a biopic about a reclusive and mystery musician? James Mangold tries to wrangle with that notion with his Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown.
Instead of covering the entirety of Dylan’s life and career, like most biopics, this drama focuses on a specific time period: 1961 to 1965.
It begins when the Blowin’ in the Wind singer arrives in New York City and follows him as he makes a name for himself on the folk scene and befriends the likes of Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) before culminating in his controversial electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Director and co-writer Mangold, adapting Elijah Wald’s book Going Electric, does a solid job of making a biopic about such an enigmatic musician.
You don’t come away from A Complete Unknown feeling like you have a real understanding of Dylan but that’s hardly...
