Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Anthony LaPaglia
Synopsis:
The story of Emmet Ray, a contender for the mantle of greatest jazz guitarist, who during the 30s blew his chances of equalling Django Reinhardt through a combination of drunkenness, unpredictability and an impotent awe of the gypsy guitar player himself.
Review:
Familiar Allen treatment of a biographical subject: episodic, punctuated by talking heads, full of improbable stories, and with a cartoon-like absence of any real damage done to anyone, except the odd rat. Odd that the unprepossessing antihero should relish the nocturnal pursuit of shooting these rodents, since he is pretty much a dirty rat himself. Penn does well in a lighter than usual role, but this is an inferior Broadway Danny Rose-meets-Radio Days.
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Anthony LaPaglia
Synopsis:
The story of Emmet Ray, a contender for the mantle of greatest jazz guitarist, who during the 30s blew his chances of equalling Django Reinhardt through a combination of drunkenness, unpredictability and an impotent awe of the gypsy guitar player himself.
Review:
Familiar Allen treatment of a biographical subject: episodic, punctuated by talking heads, full of improbable stories, and with a cartoon-like absence of any real damage done to anyone, except the odd rat. Odd that the unprepossessing antihero should relish the nocturnal pursuit of shooting these rodents, since he is pretty much a dirty rat himself. Penn does well in a lighter than usual role, but this is an inferior Broadway Danny Rose-meets-Radio Days.
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Anthony LaPaglia
Synopsis:
The story of Emmet Ray, a contender for the mantle of greatest jazz guitarist, who during the 30s blew his chances of equalling Django Reinhardt through a combination of drunkenness, unpredictability and an impotent awe of the gypsy guitar player himself.
Review:
Familiar Allen treatment of a biographical subject: episodic, punctuated by talking heads, full of improbable stories, and with a cartoon-like absence of any real damage done to anyone, except the odd rat. Odd that the unprepossessing antihero should relish the nocturnal pursuit of shooting these rodents, since he is pretty much a dirty rat himself. Penn does well in a lighter than usual role, but this is an inferior Broadway Danny Rose-meets-Radio Days.