New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music.
Timothée Chalamet Fred Berger James Mangold Alan Gasmer Bob Bookman Peter Jaysen Alex Heineman Jeff Rosen Blake Simon
Kevin Michael Murphy Kyli Zion Scott Burik Wyatt Carnel Spencer Barnes Shawnah Donley Roy Farfel Cort Hessler Donald John Hewitt Gina Limbrick Mariusz Kubicki Dean Neistat Jon Trosky Thomas Place Luke Lesko Neimah Djourabchi Taylor Valentine Lupini Greg Harvey Shane Geraghty Matthew Quinn Flanagan Aaron Joshua Ian Mclaughlin Anthony Mecca Dejay Roestenberg Zachry Rogers Sunny Vinsavich Drew Reade Alexa Marcigliano
Veritas Entertainment Group The Picture Company Searchlight Pictures Turnpike Films Range Media Partners White Water
Going Electric, 无名小辈, Bob Dylan: Úplně neznámý, 컴플리트 언노운, Un parfait inconnu, Um Completo Desconhecido, Un completo desconocido, Tam Bir Bilinmez, 名もなき者/A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, Kompletnie nieznany, 搖滾詩人：未知的傳奇, Боб Ділан: Цілковитий незнайомець, Никому не известный, 巴布狄倫：搖滾詩人
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Women: “you’re such an asshole. how do you make such good music?!
Bob Dylan: *unintelligible mumbling*
Women: “fuck, you’re so hot”
“Walk the Line” was hardly the first Hollywood movie that dared to serve up a facsimile-driven portrait of a singularly original artist, as though lightning-in-a-bottle creative genius could ever hope to be recaptured by studio notes and a three-act structure, but if writer-director James Mangold didn’t invent the standard-issue music biopic, I would argue that he committed the far more reprehensible crime of perfecting it — of so perfectly crystallizing the sub-genre in the public imagination that it had to be destroyed from several different angles at once. Arriving at essentially the same time some two years later, Jake Kasdan’s “Walk Hard” and Todd Haynes’ “I’m Not There” both humiliated Mangold’s 2005 Johnny Cash biopic for its formulaic inauthenticity; one…
If nothing else it's gotten me to give Dylan's music another shot but my god Timmy being nominated for this over Dune feels wrong.
This movie just has nothing to say. Lightly grazes anything of interest before kicking in to another song.
• Decent movie about having swag
• Admirably honest about realizing folk music kind of sucks
• Pretty limp Dylan movie
• So by-the-numbers as a biopic it almost implies outsider art
• Bad movie
I started tallying how many times the compendium of biopic clichés earned a “come ON.” Final count: eight. Which doesn’t account for scores of unintended laughs and pffs. Kinda admire James Mangold for so letting Walk Hard roll off his back; do not admire James Mangold for making this movie.
Ever wonder how a kid fresh off the boat from Minnesota became our greatest musician? A Complete Unknown has your answer: he just kinda bent over a sheet of paper, strumming a guitar and going…
to my astonishment, really, really good and really smart about avoiding pitfalls I figured it would stumble right into. less about bob dylan than about the experience of dylan moving through your world, watching him grow as an artist, and constantly struggle to understand who or what is making him so special. every performance really well-judged and the music is a blast
An excruciating experience. A movie that looks great but is so devoid of any insight or anything meaningful to say that it ends up being a colossal waste of time.
I don't need to go to a movie to see people dress up, do impressions, and cover popular songs. I have Tiktok for that.
My least favorite film of the year, and I include Joker: Folie a Deux in that metric.
One night, Seeger brought Bob Dylan home,
When he was just "A Complete Unknown".
Thought this young bloke,
Could elevate folk,
Even when acting like a rolling stone.
Timothée Chalamet is, in a word… electric.
Timothée Chalamet delivers a transformative performance as the enigmatic and iconic Bob Dylan. The film's superb song mixes—whether it's Chalamet singing, digital wizardry, or a seamless blend of both—are absolutely convincing. Monica Barbaro is utterly captivating as Joan Baez, while Boyd Holbrook steals every scene as the rebellious Johnny Cash. The film covers the genesis of his early folk career and crescendos toward Dylan's 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance where he famously ‘went electric.’ The film explores the tension between artistic creativity and commodity.
I must admit, I walked away loving the performances but not fully vibing with the film's focus on Dylan's "going electric." However, having sat with it for a while—and…
In her memoir "A Free Wheelin' Time," Suze Rotolo (in the film fictionalized as Elle Fanning's Sylvie), writes, "He was not linear; he was quirky and jumpy, receptive to what was around him." This is something Todd Haynes understood and why his film is the only Dylan biopic we should ever need.
I loved this. So handsomely mounted and classic but also thorny and thoughtful and genuinely entertaining.
There’s a moment in the picture where Dylan says people ask him all the time where the songs come from, but what they’re really asking is “why don’t the songs come to me” (apologies to the script for butchering the actual lines).
Anyway - in many ways, that’s the most meaningful insight we get into Dylan. Because it’s all we need. He’s the guy songs come to.
Blessed. Touched by god. And re Dylan, as an artist - I do think that’s true.
