Like a rolling stone comes the best musician biopic since “Elvis.” It’s “A Complete Unknown,” director James Mangold’s transportive movie about a young Bob Dylan trying to make it as a scrappy folk singer in New York. You’re probably shouting, “Another ‘Behind the Music’?!” If you, like me, are sick and tired of this overstretched genre after clunkers such as “Back To Black” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” the answer, my friend, is Timothée Chalamet.
Like a rolling stone comes the best musician biopic since “Elvis.”
It’s “A Complete Unknown,” director James Mangold’s transportive movie about a young Bob Dylan trying to make it as a scrappy folk singer in New York.
You’re probably shouting, “Another ‘Behind the Music’?!”
If you, like me, are sick and tired of this overstretched genre after clunkers such as “Back To Black” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” the answer, my friend, is Timothée Chalamet.
The 28-year-old “Dune” actor, who convincingly does all his own singing here, was the perfect choice to play Dylan. Really, the only choice. He makes the movie.
Carrying his indie roots with him like a membership card on every frame, Chalamet has Dylan’s same art-before-fame persona, his New York cool, his hair that’s blowin’ in the wind. Most vital, he ably handles the singer’s signature nasal twang in both song and speech.
