Another lengthy look at Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan is here. After this summer’s teaser trailer, the latest official trailer for the long-awaited Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has surfaced, which sees Chalamet play a convincing Dylan, chronicling his career trajectory from his days as a 19-year-old in Minnesota to his monumental levels of folk-rock fame.
“I wanted to catch a spark,” opens Chalamet as he settles down in New York City, crooning “Girl From the North Country” in the background. He connects with fellow musician Joan Baez, played by Monica Barbaro, and the two ease into a relationship – both musical and romantic – as his name and notoriety begin to grow.
Enter Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo – a fictionalized take on Dylan’s former girlfriend Suze Rotolo – who comes into the picture just as Dylan begins to doubt how to define his sound. “If anyone’s gonna hold your attention on a stage, you have to kind of be a freak,” Dylan says to her. “You can be beautiful or you can be ugly, but you can’t be plain.”
Feeling boxed into the folk genre, Dylan expresses a desire to pivot to rock music, retorting “Two hundred people in this room and they each want me to be someone else. They should just let me be … Whatever it is they don’t want me to be.”
Dylan, sick of singing “Blowing In The Wind” on loop, makes the conscious choice to “piss some people off,” picking up the electric guitar as “Like A Rolling Stone” closes out the two-and-a-half-minute first-look at the film.
Stream the first official trailer for A Complete Unknown in the gallery above and catch the flick in theaters on Christmas Day.
