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Blaze
USA 2018
produced by Ethan Hawke, Ryan Hawke, Jake Seal, John Sloss, Louis Black (executive), Sandy K. Boone (executive), Gurpreet Chandhoke (executive), Stephen Shea (executive) for Ansgar Media, Cinetic Media, Village Studios
directed by Ethan Hawke
starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton, Josh Hamilton, Kris Kristofferson, Gurf Morlix, Ethan Hawke, Alynda Lee Segarra, Sybil Rosen, Nancy Roppolo, David Hinson, Aaron Augustus, Brittany Price, Richard Linklater, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Jean Carlot, Charles Adams, Edgar Arreola, Charles Barber, Brett Beoubay, Martin Bats Bradford, Adam Brazy, Jeff Caperton, Robert Casiello, Didi Costine, Laura Costine, Penelope Costopoulos, Martin Covert, Mitch Craft, Glinda David, Elliott Estelle, Jen Guitreau, James Hardin, David Kallaway, Rick Lecompte, D. Taylor Loeb, Jenn Lyon, Allison McDaniel, Ritchie Montgomery, Maureen Tully
screenplay by Ethan Hawke, Sybil Rosen, based on Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley by Sybil Rosen, music by Blaze Foley
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Blaze Foley (Ben Dickey) is an incredibly talented country and western
musician and songwriter - but he usually lets his temperament get the
better of him, even on stage, and he's also a heavy drinker, which often
leads to him losing his perspective, and eventually a major record deal.
Plus, constantly being in the company of others like fellow musician
Townes Van Zandt (Charlie Sexton) who like the musician lifestyle more
than the actual work makes him lose himself in drugs and parties - and
thus, what could have been a fine career is no more than a tour through
half empty two-bit honky tonks. And while he's happily married to Sybil
(Alia Shawkat), even that relationship breaks under the strain of his more
and more derailed behaviour - until disaster is inavoidable ... Blaze
is a movie that's very atmospheric, that looks slick and feels rounded out
and is well cast and well played, and even the music is good (for someone
who's not into country and western) - but it's just too damned long, so it
seems to make the same point over and over and over again, especially
since the film's central character has no development - his self
destructive behaviour is established in the first scene, and from there on
things become repetitive. It's not that this is an at all "bad"
movie - but at over 2 hours it's just way too long.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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