Magazin für unabhängiges Kino
Filmwecker
Filmnotiz

Neue Notiz

Born to Be Blue

BORN TO BE BLUE is a cinematic portrait of terrific jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, a humorous homage that doesn’t take itself too seriously. That also has to do with Ethan Hawke’s performance, who manages to approximate Baker without losing himself.

More

After MILES AHEAD (director and lead role: Don Cheadle), the unconvincing, gangster film-like Miles Davis biopic that only came out on DVD here, Canadian director Robert Budreau takes on another master of the jazz trumpet: Chet Baker. Budreau focuses on the turning point in a life with its fair share of crises: in the mid 60s it looks like Baker’s heroin addiction will be the end of him. Chet comes back with a strong woman at his side. The tired cliché of the suffering creative genius often found in biopics is thankfully missing here. BORN TO BE BLUE is a portrait and a homage filled with humor and doesn’t take itself too seriously. That has a lot to do with Ethan Hawke’s performance. Hawke manages to approximate Baker without losing himself. Hawke shows us the many faces of Chet Baker in amazingly shot scenes: from “King of Cool” over to the “James Dean of Jazz” and “the biggest junkie in the world.” Despite its lightness and self-mockery, the 97 minute film carries existential weight and culminates into a moving climax that has a lot to say about drug addiction. The film can proudly stand next to the great Baker doc LET’S GET LOST.

Matthias von Viereck

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Original title: Born to Be Blue
Kanada, Großbritannien 2015, 97 min
Language: English, Italian
Genre: Biography, Music Films
Director: Robert Budreau
Author: Robert Budreau
DOP: Steve Cosens
Montage: David Freeman
Music: Todor Kobakov, Steve London, David Braid
Distributor: Alamode Film / Filmagentinnen
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Stephen McHattie, Callum Keith Rennie, Carmen Ejogo, Janet-Laine Green
FSK: 12
Release: 08.06.2017

Website
IMDB

Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

Keine Programmdaten vorhanden.

ALLE ANGABEN OHNE GEWÄHR.
Die Inhalte dieser Webseite dürfen nicht gehandelt oder weitergegeben werden. Jede Vervielfältigung, Veröffentlichung oder andere Nutzung dieser Inhalte ist verboten, soweit die INDIEKINO BERLIN UG (haftungsbeschränkt) nicht ausdrücklich schriftlich ihr Einverständnis erklärt hat.