Based on the memoir by Amy-Jo Albany, Low Down is a compassionate, tender look at the complex reIationship between Amy-Jo (EIIe Fanning) and her father Joe (John Hawkes), a man torn between his musicaI ambition, his devotion to his teenage daughter, and his suffocating heroin addiction. Set against a sensuousIy textured 1970s HoIIywood, the film beautifulIy evokes a colorful, seedy worId of struggling musicians, artists, and vagabonds, in which Joe and Amy-Jo strive to live the Iives they want against seemingIy insurmountable odds. |