The beauty of the movie, and of Timothée Chalamet's performance, is it captures how the secret of Dylan's music was never about what it "means."

Disney’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown opened to £2.6m this weekend across the UK-Ireland, landing in the top spot. With just shy of 700 sites reporting, and a few still to report, the film has a location average of £3,714.

In the early 2000s, Bob Dylan predicted his career was nearing its end of public intrigue and celebrity—little did he know how much the 2024 film, A Complete Unknown, would rattle those plans. Two decades before the Timothée Chalamet vehicle came out,

"Once he was on my bus and I didn't recognize him and threw him off," Young recalled Neil Young's review of A Complete Unknown is in. On the "Harvest Moon" singer's website Neil Young Archives, he shared his thoughts on the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet.

Of Dylan, Young says: "Once he was on my bus and I didn’t recognize him and threw him off but that’s another story"

Neil Young has given his verdict on the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. The film, directed by Walk the Line ’s James Mangold, stars Timothée Chalamet as the Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter, during the period when he controversially “went electric”.

Looking for more movies about Bob Dylan after A Complete Unknown? From Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid to No Direction Home, check out our list of the best Bob Dylan films, ranked in chronological order.

Timothée Chalamet appeared at the Rome photo call for his latest film, “A Complete Unknown,” where he stars as Bob Dylan. For the event on Friday, the actor’s Prada look paid homage to the iconic American singer-songwriter’s early 1960s style.

A Complete Unknown article by Doug Collette, published on January 10, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Film Review articles