Sweet and Lowdown (1999) Reviews & Ratings

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Sweet and Lowdown reviews

Sweet and Lowdown holds a 6.8/10 average from 575 TMDB ratings.

Presented in a documentary style, this drama looks at the life of the fictional jazz guitarist "Emmet Ray" (Sean Penn). Now, of course, he is American so is naturally the best in the whole wide world, well second best actually, and that is testified to by frequent obsequious pieces-to-camera from purported experts and then by his own performances as he plays standards from the likes of Django Reinhardt, the masterfu…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

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