Low Down

A lovely film that brings great emotion and a dead-on feeling for time, place and recaptured mood to a story that is as universal as it is personal.

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Low Down

Based on the memoir by Amy-Jo Albany, LOW DOWN is a compassionate, tender look at the complex relationship between Amy-Jo (Elle Fanning) and her father Joe (John Hawkes), a man torn between his musical ambition, his devotion to his teenage daughter, and his suffocating heroin addiction. Set against a sensuously textured 1970s Hollywood, the film beautifully evokes a colorful, seedy world of struggling musicians, artists, and vagabonds, in which Joe and Amy-Jo strive to live the lives they want against seemingly insurmountable odds.
R
Genre
Bio-pic, Drama
Runtime
114
Language
English
Director
Jeff Preiss
Cast
Elle Fanning, Taryn Manning, Peter Dinklage, Burn Gorman, Flea
FEATURED REVIEW
David Thomson, The New Republic

LOW DOWN is about a child watching a grown man as he succumbs to life. It is not a cheerful film, and while its milieu is that of the world of jazz, it does not believe in endless drum solos defying an unkind world. This is the story of a piano player (John Hawkes), brilliant but hesitant, who is ...

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