Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Woody Allen

Guionista (WGA):

Woody Allen (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

26 enero 2000 (France)

Género:

Comedia | Música

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Jazz | Train | 1930s | Gangster | Rat

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 11 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

For The Love Of Django

Reparto

Woody Allen	...	Himself
Ben Duncan	...	Himself
Daniel Okrent	...	A.J. Pickman
Dan Moran	...	Boss
Tony Darrow	...	Ben
Chris Bauer	...	Ace - Pool Player
Sean Penn	...	Emmet Ray
Constance Shulman	...	Hazel - Hooker #1
Kellie Overbey	...	Iris - Hooker #2
Darryl Alan Reed	...	Don
Marc Damon Johnson	...	Omer
Ron C. Jones	...	Alvin (as Ron Cephas Jones)
Steve Bargonetti	...	Musician Friend
Benjamin Franklin Brown	...	Musician Friend
James Urbaniak	...	Harry

También conocida como:

Woody Allen Fall Project 1998 (USA) (working title)
Acordes y desacuerdos (Spain) [es]
El gran amante (Mexico) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content and some substance abuse.

Duración:

95 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital (Mono)

Clasificación:

Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:12 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG-13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Fresh Pond Rail Yards, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Magnolia Productions

Trivialidades:

Woody Allen had planned an initial version of this movie (originally titled "The Jazz Baby") as his first film for United Artists. When UA insisted upon a comedy, Allen shelved the idea for nearly three decades.

Errores:

Anacronismos: The steel grain bins seen on a car trip would not be found in that time era.

Citas:

Emmet Ray: Now get dressed!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

I'll See You in My Dreams

For The Love Of Django

When we try to understand genius, or love, or "why?", we run into the same problem that the ancients encountered:

"I went to the poets … I took them some of the most elaborate passages in their own writings, and asked what was the meaning of them — thinking that they would teach me something. I must say that there is hardly a person present who would not have talked better about their poetry than they did themselves. That showed me in an instant that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them." — Socrates, The Apology

So here we have Woody telling a story about a storyteller, who talks and struts endlessly (Penn has a ball with this), but can only say anything through music, and he can't explain a bit of it. Much like Woody, who prattles on about every neurosis, but speaks volumes through his control of the medium. It's just something he's born to do.

And this is the only way to understand Django -- with only two working fingers on his fretting hand (accidental disfigurement), he reinvented the whole medium of guitar. The new shape of his hand forced him into holding octaves - which can be done on guitar with two adjacent fingers, unlike on the piano - and changing the way leads and comping - here, self-accompaniment - were played. His art was the necessary step before Les Paul, and thence to Wes Montgomery, and so on to you and me.

Here is devotion without hagiography, because all of this is wrapped into "one of those Emmett Ray stories", where you can 'never be sure' of what is truth, confabulation, or exaggeration.

Brilliance. Bravo, to all.