28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
RETROSPECTIVES: TRIBUTE TO BRUCE WEBER
LET’S GET LOST
Bruce Weber
USA 1989 119 35mm B&W
i There are no scheduled screenings.
Film description
This documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter-singer Chet Baker intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, with a series of interviews with friends, family, associates and lovers, as well as with scenes from some of his later performances. We see the handsome young Baker in California and Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and one jail cell (for drug possession), and we also see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his once beautiful face a ruin. As lyrical and romantic as Baker’s trumpet, Let’s Get Lost is an elegy for a more carefree age and a chance to get lost in a cool world.
i There are no scheduled screenings.
