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Sweet and Lowdown

...in creating a fictional musician as its subject, celebrates music and all the maniacs who make it best through a string of outrageous gags, gigs and misbehaving.

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 title of the film says it all. Sweet and Lowdown is about polarities: the beauty and depth of Emmett’s talent contrasted with his self-absorbed and self-aggrandizing personality...

...a funny, charming piece of period nostalgia...

Affectionate, melancholy and anchored by a well thought-out performance fromSean Penn, it purports to look at the life and legend of an obscure jazz musician named Emmet Ray.