Chalamet portrays the music icon during the 1961 to 1965 time period of Dylan's career as he arrives on the folk music scene and quickly shakes it up.

Baez famously wrote the heartbreaking song "Diamonds and Rust" about their rocky romance. ("My poetry is lousy, you said.") In A Complete Unknown, their chemistry is undeniable; the jealousy that cuts both ways, and the ache they share as artists and lovers is breathtaking, cutting to the core, even as she smiles sharply.

James Mangold's entrancingly offbeat biopic has the feel — the effect — of a musical, as Dylan's songs become the story it's telling.

Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro also star in this portrait of the early ’60s Greenwich Village folk scene and the friction caused by Dylan rejecting his acoustic roots.

Bob Dylan is a chameleonic artist whose many personas and phases have made him difficult to succinctly define, just as his most iconic incarnation—the ’60s-’70s folk-rock hipster and politically engaged poet—remains impossible to imitate.

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Still, " Chalamet is a hypnotic Dylan", said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. He gives a "hilarious and seductive" performance, transforming into the "puckish", "witty" Dylan who becomes an "unwilling leader of his generation".

"A Complete Unknown" stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. Director James Mangold traces the early years of Dylan's career and switch to electric.