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Dominican Rep. Let's Get Lost documentary
- Original title
- Let's Get Lost
- Year
- 1988
- Running time
- 120 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Chet Baker
Cherry Vanilla
William Claxton
Flea
Lisa Marie
Jack Sheldon- Lawrence Trimble
- Robbi Chong
Chris Isaak
Scott Coffey- Jennifer Gimenez
Viggo Mortensen- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Music Documentary. Biography. Jazz
- Synopsis
- Documentary about the life of American jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, directed by the famous photographer Bruce Weber, and which acquired a sadly unexpected additional value when Chet Baker himself passed away during the editing of the film. Baker was one of the most prominent figures in the music world of the 20th century. "Let's get lost" stems from Weber's enormous fascination with this jazz genius. Initially the idea was to make a series of photos of the musician, but after the relationship between the two, the director ended up making a film of more than two hours about Baker, jazz and two of his great passions: cars and women. In 1989, the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary, and won the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival shortly after Baker's suicide in a hotel in Amsterdam. The documentary chronicles Baker's last days using footage shot during the musician's last tour, with interviews with Baker himself, his wives, children, friends and girlfriends. The film is an explicit document that presents, as a warning, the traps into which famous and talented people can fall.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1988: Nominated for Oscar: Best Documentary1988: Venice Film Festival: Critics' Week Prize Award1989: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated to Grand Jury Prize1989: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Cinematogr. & Documentary1989: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Documentary
- Critics' reviews
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"Just about the only documentary that works like a novel, inviting you to read between the lines of Baker's personality until you touch the secret sadness at the heart of his beauty."
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"Baker's life, like his music, was as sad as it was beautiful. And Weber's movie - obsessed with Baker's image as much as with his songs - hits all the right notes."
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"The miraculous thing about Let's Get Lost is that Weber has managed to create something that's both impossibly stylized and unmistakably moral (not judgmental, moral)."
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"Baker's face, and the extraordinary ways in which Bruce Weber has photographed it, encapsulate the story of Baker's life in a succession of ghostly, indelible images"
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