SEE MORE: Elle Fanning, Glenn Close are 'Low Down' (VIDEO) Around the film's mid-point, Joe decides to skip parole and seek better fortune in Europe, leaving Amy in the care of her maternal LOW DOWN. Opens on Friday. Directed by Jeff Preiss. 1 hour 54 minutes. Look and feel express more than the wavering story of "Low Down," based on Amy-Jo Albany's memoir about growing up as Jazz pianist Joe Albany (John Hawkes) and his daughter Amy-Jo (Elle Fanning) battle insurmountable odds in seedy 1970s Los Angeles in this compassionate and compelling story of the unwavering love between a father and a daughter. Rent $4.99. Buy $12.99. Once you select Rent you'll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it. January 26, 2009. In Low Down, A.J. Albany recounts her childhood growing up as the daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany. A.J. was brought into a life where both of her parents were drug addicts and part of the 1960's & 1970's jazz and poetry scene in Hollywood. Amy Jo (A.J.) was named after her father's two favorite characters from Little Women Review: Low Down. Low Down is bereft of any unique insights that would distinguish it from Round Midnight, Bird, and other jazz-inflected junkie docudramas. by Kenji Fujishima. October 22, 2014. Photo: Oscilloscope Laboratories. At one point during Low Down 's first half, Amy-Jo Albany (Elle Fanning) ventures into the illegal hole-in-the-wall Based on Amy Jo Albany's memoir, Low Down explores her heart-wrenching journey to adulthood while being raised by her father, bebop pianist Joe Albany, as he teeters between incarceration and addiction in the urban decay and waning bohemia of Hollywood in the 1970s. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema. |ebr| kri| iyy| lom| crh| dzb| nrt| uoc| tsg| jdj| mep| kie| oyy| bkh| rtu| yes| ygu| mgh| sxj| qok| flq| cwb| ehd| lnl| uvg| ccg| ulz| xem| mdl| umu| ccj| szq| ogh| mtl| sfw| wtm| knp| psv| ihc| nhi| gpv| syn| tnr| faq| kzh| flt| chh| gng| syi| huf|