The movies are a mix between the Bob Dylan biopic drama and scary films such as Wolf Man.

In one of A Complete Unknown’s wonderful musical scenes, Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) perform together at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964. They have had a tumultuous relationship and now Joan barely tolerates Bob,

The makers of A Complete Unknown gave up trying to make the singer-songwriter sympathetic, and let his music – and a bravura turn from Timothée Chalamet – provide the heart.