Let's Get Lost

*** Stars

This documentary about jazz trumpeter-singer Chet Baker shows footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell for drug possession. And, we see the aged Baker a lost man with a physical feature of skeleton proportions.

I knew little of Chet Baker heading into the film. I did learn a lot about his life and how he became so lost. At a run time of more than two hours, the movie earns its sentimental value, while sometimes failing to entertain.