Timothée Chalamet sings Bob Dylan: the new trailer for the biopic raises eyebrows
A Perfect Stranger, directed by James Mangold, will be released next January.
After putting the life of Johnny Cash into images, brilliantly, in Walk the Linethe director James Mangold takes on another legend of American song. This time it is Bob Dylan who is entitled to his biopic, with Timothée Chalamet in the role of the icon of the sixties.
The Franco-American had already made his fine voice heard in Wonka and this time he will push the cursor a little further, singing the true story behind the advent of Bob Dylan and his hits “Blowing in the Wind”, “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and of course “Like a Rolling Stone” (from which the title of the film is taken).
The new trailer forA complete stranger (A complete Unknown in original version) which has just been revealed by Searchlight Pictures, which tells the story of the rise of young Bob, his debut on stage with Joan Baez (played by Monica Barbaro) and his love story with Sylvie Russo, Dylan’s companion at the time (played by Elle Fanning). Finally, Edward Norton will be Pete Seeger, pioneer of folk music, co-founder of the Newport Festival (where Bob Dylan and other Joan Baez became known).
The official pitch for the film announces: “New York, early 1960s. At the heart of the effervescent musical and cultural scene of the time, an enigmatic 19-year-old young man arrives in the West Village from his native Minnesota, with his guitar and an extraordinary talent that forever changed the course of American music While he formed intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he eventually felt stifled by the folk movement and, refusing to be pigeonholed, made a controversial choice that would have. repercussions on a global scale…”
A Perfect Stranger will be released in cinemas on January 29, 2025 in France.
