Let's Get Lost
Bruce Weber / US, 1989 / 120 min.
Fascinating portrait of jazz trumpetist Chet Baker, made by photographer Bruce Weber, paints a disturbing picture of a musician brought low by his drug addiction. The trumpet player’s appeal and many flaws captured in a noir documentary.
Bruce Weber’s masterpiece about the cool jazz legend, shows how Chet Baker’s drug abuse would ultimately result in his death. The film was shot a mere four months before the latter’s deadly fall from an Amsterdam hotel window.
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Director
Bruce Weber
Production year
1989
Country
US
Original title
Let's Get Lost
Length
120 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
All That Jazz
All That Jazz: a scintillating programme on jazz and film featuring classics, live performances and a focus on exceptional avant-garde and activist filmmakers with a passion for jazz. From Miles Davis to Vincent de Boer, from Sun Ra to Ornette Coleman.
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