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Sweet and Lowdown

Woody Allen / US, 1999 / 95 min.

Woody Allen put all his love for old jazz into this mockumentary about Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), the best guitarist in the world after Django Reinhardt. Jazz connoisseurs and music specialists, including Allen himself, deliver comments on the ‘dramatized’  episodes from Ray’s life. This summer EYE is devoting a retrospective to the New York director.

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Director

Woody Allen

Production year

1999

Country

US

Original title

Sweet and Lowdown

Length

95 min.

Subtitles

NLD

Format

35mm

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The Comedies of Woody Allen

What makes Woody Allen one of the most brilliant comedians of the past hundred years? In The Comedies of Woody Allen, Eye highlights his extensive oeuvre, from the rarely seen 'early, funny ones' of the early 1970s to his latest film Irrational Man.

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