Synopsis
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
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Cast
- John HawkesJoe Albany
- Elle FanningAmy Albany
- Glenn CloseGram
- Peter DinklageAlain
- Lena HeadeySheila Albany
- FleaHobbs
- Tim DalyDalton
- Caleb Landry JonesCole
- River RossLaPrez
- Taryn ManningColleen
Recommandations
- 60
The Telegraph
The film hinges on the bond between dad and daughter and on the expressive face of Fanning, as we see her shift from a sort of nervous adoration of the unpredictable, if loving, Joe, to something more steely and independent. - 60
Variety
It’s a familiar story of music-world success, failure and addiction, admirably but unevenly told by first-time feature director Jeff Preiss, who certainly knows the music and the milieu, but proves less adept at shaping the material into a consistently compelling narrative. - 60
Time Out
Fanning manages to bring soulfulness to a character who mostly reacts to others; you just wish the whole movie were, well, jazzier. - 50
The Dissolve
Fanning and Hawkes are both great actors, but they can only do so much with Low Down’s familiar, monotonous cycle of recovery and relapse. - 50
Village Voice
There are too many notes that, while not false, are neither satisfactorily resolved nor left interestingly unresolved. - 50
Observer
A well-meaning but desultory descent into darkness based on a memoir of the same name by Amy-Jo Albany, daughter of Joe Albany, the great jazz pianist who died in 1988 at age 63. The book, published in 2003, was subtitled Junk, Jazz and Other Fairy Tales From Childhood, and that just about covers it. - 50
Slant Magazine
There's only so much that Fanning's vividly expressive face and Hawkes's charismatic sensitivity can mask before we realize how little we truly understand what goes on in anybody's head. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Unfortunately, the film never begins to reveal what's really going on inside Joe Albany.
