Title - A Complete Unknown
Production - Veritas Entertainment, The Picture Company, Range Media Partners
Starring - Timothee Chalamet, Dakota Fanning, Edward Norton, Monica Barberra, Eriko Hatsune, Scoot McNairy, Dan Fogler, Boyd Holbrook, Charlie Tahan, Will Harrison
Writer - James Mangold, Jay Cocks, Elijah Wald
Director - James Mangold
Release - 25 December 2024
Ten minutes in to the movie, that's the first time Timothee Chalamet - whom I'm still unsure if he wasn't sometimes channeling a younger Shia LaBeouf - played and sang. At this point I haven't seen any clips online so this was the first time for me, and I was shocked at how much he sounded like Bob Dylan.
And James Mangold's decision to focus on just his face at the end of the song, gave me a bit of chills.
The only time I've seen Dylan was just few months ago in The Greatest Night In Pop. And he seemed like a really quiet and modest and very self-conscious man. To see him being portrayed as magnetic as Chalamet was a little strange. But of course, in said documentary Dylan was very uncomfortable, like a fish out of water, so it probably wasn't the Dylan the world knew.
This was my favourite Edward Norton performance since American History X. The way he acted made him looked like a different person. And when he sang, I didn't know he had that kind of pipes.
Actually, all that who sang in this movie were great. Monica Barberra was impressive, and what a great casting because she did look like Joan Baez too. And Boyd Holbrook was unrecognizable with some prosthetics, and he sang great too.
However, I believe there could have been a real possible case to make Dakota Fanning as a supporting role, too, and she may have a better shot in that category, because I thought her arc was a much better one than Barberra's, who is nominated.
One unfortunate cast, Eriko Hatsune, seemed to have only one dramatic expression throughout the movie; so I couldn't tell what emotion she was trying to convey most of the time.
I am also unsure of Mangold's way of storytelling in this movie. The time jumps in between scenes seemed a bit abrupt. It's probably because he had to cramp a lot of details into this film which is already two and a half hours long.
But this movie made Dylan looked like an enigma, and that was the right way to go.
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