Blaze

Every one of the relationships depicted crackles with history, tension and love.
-- Oliver Jones, New York Observer

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Blaze

BLAZE is inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three different periods of time, braiding re-imagined versions of Blaze’s past, present and future. The different strands explore his love affair with Sybil Rosen; his last, dark night on earth; and the impact of his songs and his death had on his fans, friends, and foes. The braided storyline terminates in a bittersweet ending that acknowledges Blaze's profound highs and lows, as well as the impressions he made on the people who shared his journey.
R
Genre
Drama, Music
Runtime
128
Language
English
Director
Ethan Hawke
Cast
Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton, Charlie Sexton
FEATURED REVIEW
Anthony Lane, New Yorker

Let us now praise non-famous men. Such is the invocation that Ethan Hawke, as a director, prefers to obey. In his previous film, with its Salingerian title of “Seymour: An Introduction” (2015), he paid tribute to a piano teacher named Seymour Bernstein—not proclaiming him an undercherished genius ...

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