Droll and amusing.
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In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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A shallow portrait of the artist as a cad.
There is enjoyment to be had from Sweet and Lowdown.
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.
A snappy, loose-limbed performance from Penn.
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