Chet Baker: "Let's Get Lost" restored at Film Forum

"A Jazzman So Cool You Want Him Frozen at His Peak" é o título de interessante artigo sobre Chet Baker, assinado por Terrence Rafferty, publicado hoje no NY Times. O mote: "Let's Get Lost", emocionante documentário dirigido por Bruce Weber e indicado ao Oscar em 1989, reestréia, em cópia restaurada de 35 milímetros, no Film Forum - não por acaso, o mesmo local onde o filme debutou há 18 anos. Próximo passo: a ansiosamente aguardada reedição em DVD. Eis um trecho do artigo que merece ser lido na íntegra:

"At the very end of Bruce Weber’s seductive, unsettling “Let’s Get Lost,” the movie’s subject, the semi-legendary cool-jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, looks back on the shooting of the film and says, in a quavery, almost tearful voice, “It was a dream.” Although in the preceding two hours Mr. Baker has delivered a fair number of dubiously reliable utterances, you’re inclined to believe him on this one because that’s what the movie feels like to the viewer too. It’s nominally a documentary (Oscar-nominated in that category in 1989), but it documents something that only faintly resembles waking reality. And Mr. Baker, who wanders through “Let’s Get Lost” with the eerie deliberateness of a somnambulist, appears to be a man who knows a thing or two about dreams."
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