‘A Complete Unknown’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes As Young Bob Dylan In James Mangold’s Thrilling Musical Drama
deadline.com“How does it feel? To be without a home? Like a complete unknown? Like a rolling stone?” I don’t know how many times I have heard that lyric and that song but never really gave it a whole lot of thought until I saw James Mangold‘s very rich story of four years in the life of a young Bob Dylan in the early 1960s.
That lyric is where this anti-biopic, A Complete Unknown, gets its title, and also takes a stab at defining who Dylan (played magnificently by a note-perfect Timothée Chalamet) was as he tried to find his way after travelling from home in Minnesota to New York City in 1961.
He turned up at age 19, a budding genius who didn’t know it then, but by mid-decade would make seismic changes in the music landscape while trying to figure out just who the artist as a young man really is.
Dylan was then, and still is to a less certain degree, an enigma, truly brilliant but one who took his own path in showing who is on the inside — a question you can still perhaps ask.
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