Blaze's reviews
Media reviews
New York Times
Like 'Boyhood' and the 'Before' trilogy, this one takes the time to listen to the odd, random, surprising and incoherent things people say.
Chicago Sun-Times
It?s a carefully crafted, almost reverential character study of man and music Hawke clearly and greatly admires.
The A.V. Club
'Blaze' feels like a true passion project, an engine running on Hawke?s endless supply of enthusiasm for his subject.
Rolling Stone
Dickey doesn?t impersonate Foley; he embodies him as a soulful artist and flawed human being who fought back the more that fame tried to tell him how to do things.
The Hollywood Reporter
Foley's cult may never grow as big as his most ardent fans would like. But Hawke and Rosen and Dickey have given the man something better than posthumous record sales.
The New Yorker
What Hawke has provided here, with plenty of grace and a minimum of fuss, is an elegy for a life that went missing, more smolder than blaze, and a chance to hear the songs of the unsung.
Indiewire
Foley never wanted to be a star, shining only for itself. He wanted to be a legend, and live forever. Thanks to Ethan Hawke?s slippery, whiskey-soaked biopic of the late musician ? and newcomer Benjamin Dickey?s casually spellbinding lead performance ? he?s closer than ever to getting his wish.
Los Angeles Times
That Hawke so closely aligns his cinematic style, inventive as it is, with the story?s disorderly, scruffily offbeat characters and settings is both a strength and a liability. His kaleidoscopic, at times ghostly, approach proves a valiant if studied effort.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote