Genre: Documentary, Biography, Jazz
Duration: 01:59:41
Released: 1988
Without a doubt the most famous film about Chet Baker. This incredibly harmonious film shot in black and white tells about the creative path of the maestro from the 50s of the last century to almost the last days of his life. Interviews with friends, relatives, a lot of archival records, photographs, and of course Chet Baker himself, who, as the director’s cruel idea, gives us the opportunity to compare him at the beginning of his musical career – when he was fabulously popular, drove women crazy – his fashionable appearance ( James Dean style), manner of dressing (snow-white tight-fitting T-shirt) and behaving as if embarrassed. When he played the trumpet so that the ladies wept, and when he sang, the same ladies fainted. And he is at the end – after a heroin friend appeared in his life, already after he spent years in the world of drug oblivion, getting into the police, then to prison, after his face was mutilated in one of the fights. Maybe because the film was shot a few months before the death of the musician, throughout the entire viewing, the feeling does not leave that the director, as if feeling the close departure of Chet, gives him a chance to say goodbye.