In ‘A Complete Unknown’, actor takes on role of enigmatic star at the start of his musical journey
The first time we glimpse Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan in the new biopic A Complete Unknown, he appears as a scruffy urchin in a Huck Finn cap and battered jacket, hunching his wiry shoulders as if steeling himself against bitter winds, or perhaps building his nerve to take on the world.
It’s 1961, and we’re meeting Dylan as he arrives in New York, all of 19 years old, shedding his given name of Robert Zimmerman and every bit as anonymous as the title proclaims.