Sweet and Lowdown Reviews

Good stories telling. Great acting on Sean Penn's part, delightful and sad at the same time. A movie to be enjoyed with a bottle of good wine.... Read more

When we try to understand genius, or love, or "why?", we run into the same problem that the ancients encountered:"I went to the poets … I took them some of the most elaborate passages in their own writings, and asked... Read more

This is a strange movie, but one made a little bit special to me because of one memorable character: "Hattie," played by Samantha Morton. What a wonderful, endearing character! The sweet look on her face alone makes this movie worth... Read more

Sean Penn, and Uma Thurman carry the only really good parts of this film. Samantha Morton's characters just annoying, with her sweetness, and the seens of Woody Allen, and some other Emmet Ray fans talking about the story, in the middle... Read more

A slow, rich movie. Though it lags in places, the three lead performances are indelibly written in my memory. And the great jazz soundtrack and warm colors made this movie go down like a glass of bourbon.Embodying the archetypal difficult... Read more

The two movies that come to mind when I think about Sean Penn and his acting ability are not Mystic River and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. They are Carlito's Way and Sweet & Lowdown. In both of these movies,... Read more

Sweet and Lowdown is the story of a fictional jazz guitarist who is self admittedly the second best in the world(next to that gypsy in France) but there is one thing that is clear while watching this movie, sean penn... Read more

Sean Penn plays Emmett Ray, a little-known jazz guitarist, an eccentric, egocentric genius self-proclaimed as the "greatest guitar player in the country" or the "second greatest guitar player in the world" - because of that gypsy from France, the bane... Read more

This is a very enjoyable movie. It has many touches in it that are classic Woody Allen, so it should appeal to his many fans. It is also so strong on the jazz material that it should appeal to jazz... Read more

I didn't find out until afterwards that Woody Allen made it all up - that Emmet Ray didn't even exist. Nor did my sister. She thought the lack of accuracy took some of the shine off the film; I thought... Read more