26 of 28 people found this review helpful. Bravo, to all. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Sweet and Lowdown Quotes. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. . SWEET AND LOWDOWN has been acclaimed as "a loving and comic tribute to a musical era! We follow Ray's life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music. (If you're pretty, I'll just invite you back to my place to watch it.) 1-month free trial! 58. Sweet And Lowdown goes back to the jazz age – the twenties and thirties. With Benny Goodman, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie. The narrators and the stranger than fiction portraits of life give a realistic feel to it. We follow Ray's life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music. I will always love this film. Emmet Ray is a fictional character, but so convincing in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown'' that he seems like a real chapter of jazz history we somehow overlooked. The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce. In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced. A director is forced to work with his ex-wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film. Tig45on March 20, 2013 Link. Synopsis A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success. Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life. Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2015. Watch Sweet and Lowdown starring Sean Penn in this Drama on DIRECTV. Loosely based on Federico Fellini's film La Strada, the film tells the fictional story, set in the 1930s, of a self-confident jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (played by Sean Penn) who falls in love with a mute woman (Samantha Morton). Contact: sweetandlowdownbooking@gmail.com Music: www.sweetandlowdownmusic.bandcamp.com Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. Which means lovely costumes, incredible cars – and a real challenge of finding locations. 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