The Oscar-nominated Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, is coming to streaming in Australia this month.
Disney+ has confirmed that the film, starring Timothée Chalamet as the music icon’s rise in the 1960’s, will hit the service on Wednesday, May 7th.
Following its worldwide cinema release last December, A Complete Unknown went on to be a commercial and critical hit, scoring eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Chalamet, Best Director for James Mangold and Best Picture, as well as three Golden Globe nominations.
It also took out a number of awards at local ceremonies, while Chalamet won the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role category at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this past February.
Dylan himself praised Chalamet, writing in a tweet ahead of the film’s release: “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me. The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric – a book that came out in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the movie read the book.”
Rolling Stone also gave the movie a positive review, particularly Chalamet’s performance.
“And as we, the audience, watch Timothée Chalamet — toussle-haired heartthrob, celebrity-lookalike-contest superstar — pluck out the chords and sing this formative Dylan tune, we can feel ourselves slowly being won over as well,” it reads.
“It’s not just that the actor is actually playing the song, or that he can hit the warbly notes well enough to do a better-than-decent cover. It’s more that you can see he’s tapping into something deeper than an impersonation of someone who’s had his share of impersonators, literal and otherwise.
“Chalamet isn’t becoming Bob Dylan. He’s carefully crafting a performance that’s evocative of him, while channeling some wild, mercurial thing in the ether. The scene immediately makes you want to see where he takes it.”
Read the full review here.
