Sweet And Lowdown
Filmfest 2015
USA 1999
Original version with German subtitles
(Original: English)
Director: Woody Allen
Section: Open Air | Swing
The fanciful biography of a legendary jazz guitarist, Emmet Ray, who clashed with lovers, gangsters, musicians and success itself in the 1930’s Jazz scene. Sean Penn stars as the fictional musical genius who during the Swing Era was on his way up but could never settle down. Emmet forever stands in the shadow of his singular hero, the profoundly passionate Django Reinhardt. Woody Allen’s tale traverses the nightclubs, back alleys and train yards of the Swing Era jazz scene – yet was entirely filmed within an hour of Manhattan.
Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Sean Penn, Uma Thurman, Samantha Morton, Anthony LaPaglia, Gretchen Mol
Credits
Screenplay: Woody Allen
Director of Photography: Zhao Fei
Film Editor: Alisa Lepselter
Composer: Dick Hyman
Production Designer: Santo Loquasto
Costume Design: Laura Cunningham Bauer
Sound: Marko Costanzo, Bruce Pross
Producer: Jean Doumanian
Production Company: Sweetland Films, B.V., Magnolia Productions, Inc.
Co-Producer: Richard Brick
World Sales: WestEnd Films
Director: Woody Allen
