motion picture Blu-ray Disc / Chet Baker - let's get lost

“Let’s Get Lost” is an atmospheric black-and-white portrait of a jazz trumpet player, an exemplar of West Coast “cool jazz” in the age when rapid-fire bebop was hot, whose life, career and face were ruined by his various addictions. That’s not an unfamiliar story among musicians of any stripe. But you can see what attracted Weber, the famous fashion photographer best-known for his iconic, homoerotic Calvin Klein and Abercrombie & Fitch advertising images, to this particular subject.

“Let’s Get Lost” (which might also have been called “You and the Night and the Music”) documents Baker’s final year, intercut with archival footage and interviews in which Baker and others look back at a rough and peripatetic life that was soon to end. But what you remember most are the shots of Baker roaming around Santa Monica, Calif., in what feels like endless late-afternoon sun, or riding at night in the back of a convertible with a woman on each arm. The passing streetlights and shadows play across the rugged terrain of his face, a topographical map of where he’s been, and how lost he got along the way.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lets-get-lost-2008