‘A Complete Unknown’: Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Biopic Blows (in the Wind)

HOW DOES IT FEEL?

Chalamet’s legions of fans will be impressed by his meticulous impersonation of Dylan’s quirks, but purists will be put off by the film’s blank, two-dimensional take on the bard.

Timothée Chalamet
Searchlight Pictures

Bob Dylan is a chameleonic artist whose many personas and phases have made him difficult to succinctly define, just as his most iconic incarnation—the ’60s-’70s folk-rock hipster and politically engaged poet—remains impossible to imitate.

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