TO borrow the title of a Bob Dylan song, it was a case of “one more cup of coffee” for the film director. (Or perhaps not, as you’ll see.) When James Mangold got stuck into making his biopic A

A Complete Unknown features a fictional character that was heavily inspired by Bob Dylan's actual muse, Suze Rotolo.

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown follows the formative years of Bob Dylan from teen folk artist to rock star. The writer/director tells Screen about the film’s own five-year journey. James Mangold recalls being “instantly and insatiably hooked by the possibilities” when he found the project that would eventually become A Complete Unknown.

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Timothée Chalamet appeared at the Rome photo call for his latest film, “A Complete Unknown,” where he stars as Bob Dylan. For the event on Friday, the actor’s Prada look paid homage to the iconic American singer-songwriter’s early 1960s style.

Timothée Chalamet delivers an amazing performance as young Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” which chronicles 19-year-old Dylan’s arrival in New York — after hitchhiking from Minnesota in 1961 — and his rapid rise to fame as a folk singer/songwriter,