Let's Get Lost

Let's Get Lost

Directed by Bruce Weber

1988120 min7.2 / 10

A melancholic portrait of jazz legend Chet Baker's rise and devastating decline, built from archival footage and intimate testimony about addiction and artistic ruin.

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell (for drug possession). And, we see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his face a ruin. Includes interviews with his children and ex-wife, women companions, and musicians.

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