Another moving southern blues mobile.

Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2019)

A great, deep, richly told narrative set in the south. Gonna have to check out more of what this done, cause his work here is quite new and impressive to watch. He captures blues culture quite realistically. This film is not quite down and dirty, yet still, the rebel atmosphere is all over the place.
The character work as well, unpredictable, deep. We have Christine Ricci in a very as a sort of nymphomaniac. Someone who can't seem to turn off those impulses and overtake her. Jackson plays aging down on his luck blues singer. He finds her and sets to clearing her of her wicked ways. Yet he is not perfect either. He has a falling marriage, yet keeps to the right.
The way all of these things leap in and out of each other is right where it needs to most all the time. The acting as well, all-around good. Chemistry solid, Rccis southern accent, unrecognizable, wonderfully vulnerable. Of course, simply have to address Jacksons singing voice, so damn good. I'd listen to a whole album with it.
In the end, this not quite a love story, not quite a music film. It is about failed love, human wickedness, and using the sounds of the south to get back to those things respectively. It may not be perfect, the pacing could use some work, also a few awkward moments If attempted comedy, yet it still works great for all the others. If you go for these sort f stories, this may not go in your shelf with the best of them. Still, it may fall in somewhere down the line.