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“A Complete Unknown” at The Music Hall

28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03801

SHOWTIMES
Saturday, March 8 2025, 7:00pm
Tuesday, March 11 2025, 7:00pm
Thursday, March 13 2025, 7:00pm

TICKETS
$16 Adults
$14 Seniors 60+, Students/Children, & Military/Veteran/First Responder

Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director. New York, 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history.

Also starring Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie.

It’s a remarkable performance. Star of the moment Timothée Chalamet inhabits the loose-limbed, live-wire physicality of the young Bob Dylan and makes an impressively good fist of capturing the frayed hessian of his distinctive voice. -Observer

A film that, despite the magnitude of its undertaking, is accessible and exciting, but never tries to idolize an artist who is presented both at the height of his genius and his most egocentric, contradictory and even unpleasant. -Los Angeles Times

It’s captivating, even if you could argue that it’s dramatically underpowered. The events building up to Newport are listless in nature, but it has a seductive, meditative, cumulative power. I wasn’t bored for a single second. -Spectator

Even as it builds a realistic world with sweep and detail… it doesn’t try to make Bob palatable, nice or, finally, comprehensible in the usual dreary biopic fashion. -New York Times

A Complete Unknown is utterly fascinating, capturing a moment in time when songs had weight, when they could move the culture – even if the singer who made them was as puzzling as a rolling stone. -Associated Press

‘R’ 141min

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