Initial reactions to Timothée Chalamet’s ‘Completely Unknown’ are beginning to pick up on social media ahead of the Bob Dylan biopic’s Christmas release date, with reporters praising Chalamet, Monica Barbaro and others’ performances in the film. I am doing it.
“Timothée Chalamet slides into Bob Dylan with effortless focus, fearless in hypnotic moments.” varietyClayton Davis, senior awards editor for “X,” wrote of X: Confidently directed by James Mangold, it features gorgeous sets and costumes. Huge respect to one of the best people to have done it. ”
Film critic Scott Menzel said that Chalamet “gives one of the best performances of the year,” adding, “Chalamet is a true masterpiece that you will never see. Chalamet’s performance is not just about his voice or his looks. It’s all about the little nuances and mannerisms that he brings so perfectly into his life. Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger were also great.”
While reactions to Complete Unknown have been largely positive so far, film critic Ryan Swen has slammed the biopic, writing that it is “vile and deceitful, cruel and mean.” The ugliest thing you’ve ever seen. ”
Meanwhile, Gregory Ellwood of The Playlist called the film “brilliant” and “shockingly moving” and said, “Chalamet is great. Monica Barbaro is great. We need a Joan Baez spin-off movie.”
From Searchlight Pictures and director James Mangold (Walk the Line), A Complete Unknown follows a young Dylan as he arrives in New York in the early 1960s. The film follows the music legend as he settles into the Greenwich Village folk scene and becomes friends with people like Joan Baez (played by Monica Barbaro) and Pete Seeger (Edward Norton). . The film ends with Dylan picking up an electric guitar and playing “Like a Rolling Stone” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, revolutionizing the genre.
talk to variety Back in July, when the first trailer for the film was released, more than a dozen Dylan experts expressed cautious optimism for A Completely Unknown, and compared it to Chalamet’s A Completely Unknown.・He praised the performance of “Hard Rains A Gonna Fall”.
“A Complete Unknown” was written by Mangold and Jay Cox and is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book “Dylan Goes Electric!” The rest of the cast includes Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, PJ Byrne as Harold Leventhal, Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, Dan Fogler as Albert Grossman, and Will as Bob Neuwirth. Including Harrison. The film is produced by Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, Peter Jasen, Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, Chalamet, and Mangold.
