Let’s Get Lost

PAGLEJ! a series of movies about music

Thursday, November 6, at 19:00
Filmsko gledališče Idrija; admission free

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Director and screenplay: Bruce Weber. Music: Chet Baker. Featuring: Chet Baker, Carol Baker, Vera Baker, Dean Baker, Missy Baker, Dick Bock, William Claxton, Flea, Hersh Hamel, Chris Isaak, Lisa Marie and others. Production: Little Bear, USA, 1988. Duration: 119 min.

Let’s Get Lost is a biographical documentary about Chet Baker, one of the few jazz musicians who became famous not only as an instrumentalist – he was a trumpeter with an instantly recognizable sound – but also as a singer. Baker began his career in the 1950s and was considered one of the leading representatives of cool jazz, a style characterized by romance and melancholy. His most famous vocal interpretation is still considered to be his rendition of the standard My Funny Valentine. The film follows Baker, who struggled with drug addiction throughout his life, from the 1950s, from his breakthrough as one of the most prominent jazz musicians, when he played with the greats (Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, Russ Freeman), to his move to Europe in the 1980s and his tragic death, when he, at the age of only 58, died after falling from the second floor of an Amsterdam hotel. Director Bruce Weber, a renowned photographer, spent several months with Baker in 1987, which turned out to be the last of the musician’s life. The film combines rarely seen archival footage with interviews with Baker’s relatives and friends. Let’s Get Lost won the Critics’ Choice Award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar in the documentary category. “Weber’s visual intuitions are as lyrical and right as Baker’s musical instincts.” (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker)

The movie series is prepared in co-production with Idrija City Library.