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It’s a good time to be a Bob Dylan fan. The enigmatic folk singer is still killing it on tour, and now, the award-winning Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is streaming. As of March 27, fans can stream the James Mangold-directed film on Hulu.
While the film was shut out at the Academy Awards, it picked up a number of prestigious awards, including Best Actor for Chalamet at the SAG Awards and honors from the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.
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The movie is available to stream on Hulu as of March 27. Hulu is available as a bundle with Disney+ or as a standalone subscription. Fans of physical media can instead pick up the 4K UHD Blu-Ray and HD Blu-Ray on Apr. 1. Otherwise, fans can buy the film on VOD platforms like Amazon.
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James Mangold directed the film, which stars Timothee Chalamet as Dylan, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo (inspired by Suze Rotolo), Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. Chalamet, Barbaro, and Norton were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances.
Chalamet was Rolling Stone’s December cover star, and he discussed preparing for the role of Dylan, including the ways he related to Dylan in his own career, saying “I related to the feeling that my talent could be my talent. I could draw the picture of an unconventional upbringing. I grew up in arts housing, Manhattan Plaza, which is a funky way to grow up. I could try to paint it negatively to you. I could try to paint it positively, but it’s a bit of everything. It’s nuanced.”
The film is based on Dylan Goes Electric!, which chronicles Dyaln’s plugged-in 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance that signaled a clear shift away from his politically focused acoustic folk music and a turning point in the culture of the ’60s.
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Chalamet sings the songs performed in the film, and his renditions were released as a soundtrack, including on vinyl.
In the Rolling Stone review, critic David Fear singled out Chalamet’s performance, writing, “The movie is as much a tribute to the actor’s abilities to modulate the mannerisms and gestures — the nasal-sneer sarcasm, the vocal loop-de-loops, and the blend of hard-shell cockiness and soft-underbelly sensitivity — in a way that simultaneously conjures man and myth as it is to Dylan.”
