Born to Be Blue (2015)


Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.

Born to Be Blue (2015)

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Released Year: 2015
Runtime: 97 minutes
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Directors: Robert Budreau
Writers: Robert Budreau

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Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.

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80
Variety - Andrew Barker
Upending the conventions of the musical rise-and-fall formula while still offering a relatively straightforward three-act narrative, the film is anchored by an Ethan Hawke performance that ranks among the best of his career.
75
The Playlist - Unnamed
On the whole, Born to Be Blue does right by its central subject. Hawke especially flourishes as the afflicted artist, desperate to put the pieces of his life back together.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Brad Wheeler
Budreau constructs with imagination and pleasing fluidity, painting a portrait with a soft, sympathetic focus while steering clear of worship.
75
Movie Nation - Roger Moore
Hawke and Ejogo, who played civil rights icon Coretta Scott King in “Selma,” have enough soul and charisma and chemistry to hold the screen and make us feel Born to be Blue, even if we, like Jane in the movie, never quite “get” Chet Baker.
70
Screen International - Fionnuala Halligan
Ethan Hawke delivers an intense, committed performance as the hopelessly drug-addicted trumpeter Chet Baker in the odd, erratic Born To Be Blue, written and directed by Robert Budreau as a bumpy free-form improvisation on the hopeless-wreck-makes-musical-comeback biopic.

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