Good film, great acting

Rating: 6/10 (1 November 2000)

"Sweet and Lowdown" is an Allen-film that I have really looked forward to, so when it finally came to my local cinema I just had to see it. The film is good, but it is certainly not a masterpiece. I really don't understand what the faux documentary scenes were there for. According to me they added nothing to the story while they made the experience of watching the film kind of irritating. The acting, though, is absolutely brilliant. Sean Penn and Samantha Morton are fantastic! Not the best Allen-film I have seen, that's "Bullets over Broadway", but still a good film. (6/10)