A Complete Unknown (Timmy Chalamet as Bob Dylan)

[Ellie]

Booked to see this on opening day. He’s made an fun entrance at the UK premiere

 

[jivafox]

I’m DREADING this.

Have it booked as a double bill on Saturday with the new Wolf Man.

 

[Kratz]

Sorry, I thought this movie was about Robbie Williams

 

[Ellie]

Having not seen either film yet, I might put an Oscar bet on Chalamet. Adrien Brody is the front runner, but giving him a second Oscar for another Holocaust film, when he’s not even had a consistently great career doesn’t seem right. Also if Timothee won he would break Brody’s record as the youngest winner, and he has had a consistently great run of performances since he was a teenager.

 

[jivafox]

Enjoying this look from the premiere in Rome

 

[Ellie]

This is a generous 7/10. The music is great, but I swear about 70% of the film is just various music performances. Ed Norton and Chalamet are excellent. Unsure where all the praise is coming from for Monica Barbaro, because she’s a lovely Joan Baez, but as a singing performer rather than a dramatic acting performance.

 

[passthatdutch]

I found this film a stone cold bore! Perhaps you have to be a Bob Dylan fan... I know very little of his stuff and I'm no further inclined to investigate after watching.

 

[jivafox]

Very “Mangold” ie very BORING and Timmy’s fake nose was ugly and distracting.

 

[rhythmbandit]

The period they chose to go with in the movie wasn't especially interesting. I guess Dylan doesn't have a life story worth telling in the same way as Elton John or Freddie Mercury.

Timothee Chalamet was excellent though.

 

[Finn]

What a VERY BORING FILM

 

[Ellie]

Well, The Brutalist isn’t actually a Holocaust film after all. I’d really not read anything about it other than it being super long. Either way, still Timmy FTW.

 

[VoR]

I didn't mind it, though I didn't feel like it really got under the skin of Bob Dylan in any meaningful way. It just sort of presented him as an inscrutable wizard who spent his time churning out classic songs, being a dick to the two women in his life and not much else. I guess that's the image of himself he wanted to portray but it wasn't terribly compelling.

The musical performances were the best part, so in that sense I understand the Monica Barbaro nomination even though her non-musical dialogue was fairly minimal and again there was very little sense of who Joan Baez was. Elle Fanning did her best with a fairly stock simpering girlfriend character.

 

[Shirley]

My dad liked it so I guess you had to BE THERE

 

[Ellie]

My mum called yesterday and she’s not a massive Dylan fan, but is obsessed with the 60s and generally likes folk music. So she loved it.

 

[jivafox]

I don’t know if it was the way the part was written, or his choices but I thought Timmy was AWFUL. He was in a completely different film to everyone else and his Bob Dylan was nothing more than a little goblin that mumbled something completely random in response to any other character’s dialogue.

 

[Finn]

It did just leave me thinking 'what a prick'. And not in a charming or complex/understandable/forgiveable way - ala Elton in Rocket Man - but just an outright dickhead.

I went in knowing v little about Dylan other than him having some QUITE GOOD SONGS. But now I'll also think badly of him.

 

[funky]

I'm developing an irrational Better Man levels of hatred towards this movie. Fair play to Dylan and his momumental mark on popular music but I've had zero interest in hearing about this film and suddenly it's EVERYWHERE and I'm now starting to resent people talking about it

 

[Suedehead]

irrational Better Man levels of hatred

I love this term and I’m here for it