Let's Get Lost (1988) (2025)

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• Review by Wilson ★★★★★ 8

  If you were to check my iPod for my most listened to songs, it would undoubtedly be Peace Piece by Bill Evans Trio at number one. Probably the greatest single piece of music imaginable. After that, it is a toss up between Frank Sinatra's Deep in a Dream; the minutes post the 10-minute mark of John Coltrane playing My Favourite Things (where his soprano sax melts your brain) and Chet Baker playing Tis Autumn.

  So when this documentary, a feature film about Chet Baker, about 45 minutes in, has Chet Baker, his ravaged face close to the camera, slowly recite the lyrics to Deep In A Dream looking painfully resigned I knew I was going to respond to it utterly.…

• Review by evilbjork ★★★½ 1

  I actually didn't know before seeing this how sad Chet Baker's story was. He was such a majestic singer who basically turned to rubble due to drugs. The interviews with him near the end of his life here are depressing to see. It's a very intimate documentary and well worth seeing if you're a fan of Baker.

• Review by blaikooz ★★★★★

  "Don't talk to me, I'm in love with Chet Baker"

  "Me too"

• Review by Joe ★★★★½ 1

  Mr. Bad Posture

• Review by Mohammadreza Mousavi ★★★★

  "that evening in paris, all the jazz clubs were silent."

• Review by Craig ★★★★

  The Red Hot Chili Peppers Cinematic Universe (Let's Get Lost, Less Than Zero, Suburbia, Thrashin', My Own Private Idaho, Point Break, The Chase, Boy Erased, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski, Back to the Future 2 and 3,etc) is vast and marvelous.

• Review by Kenji Fujishima ★★★½

  To my mind, Bruce Weber's documentary portrait of jazz singer/trumpeter Chet Baker is both mildly enhanced and somewhat limited by the extent to which the film is about Weber's own obsession with Baker purely as a glamorous icon. Surely he wasn't so naive that he honestly thought there was a pure, angelic soul behind the movie-star looks and insane musical talent. (Either that, or maybe I'm just that cynical about stardom.)

  Give Weber credit, though, for confronting, in unsparing tough-love fashion, the often harsh realities of the deceiving, self-destructive, gaunt-looking man he ended up following in the last year of his life. As much as a screw-up as he was in his personal life, however, he remained a great musician…

• Review by Robert Daniels ★★★★ 1

  A bracing portrait of an artist and flawed man—Chet Baker—that I doubt could ever be made today in a world that is so afraid to look at the warts of its heroes and idols.

  Seen @ Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

• Review by Jim Beaver ★★★★★

  Brutal, fascinating, deeply moving documentary on the legendary jazz musician goes where most biographical documentaries (especially those filmed with the participation of the subject) fear to go. Baker's music is highlighted very effectively, a couple of numbers, especially a late live performance of "Almost Blue," absolutely devastating. Friends and family speak of him with candor and the most amazing combination of disdain, love, humor, and sadness. Director Bruce Weber's style is a terrific mixture of New Wave, cinema verité, and early Buñuel. The constance leaps back and forth between the cherubic young Baker and the ravaged face of his last years constantly renew the feeling of loss, but the beauty of Baker's performances up until the end always returns us…

• Review by Marya E. Gates ★★★★½ 1

  This was so raw and dreamy and savage. Somehow both hagiographic and a brutal portrait of a man who was a big piece of shit to a lot of people in his life. One of the few docs that is actually as interesting as its subject.

  KVIFF 2024 #12

• Review by Deafula ★★★½

  The darkest jazz documentary I know of, this portrait of a great artist's messy life has that powerful late '80s vibe that the "pre-Sundance" generation of independent films harnesses. It's gritty, black and white and loosely filmed, far less concerned with linear storytelling than creating a tragic depth to his haunting musical output through stories of drug abuse, angry exes, abandoned children and Chet's self-created mythology.

• Review by doctorinsermini ★★★★

  Me gusta un hombre destruido.