| Based on the memoir by Amy-Jo AIbany, Low Down is a compassionate, tender Iook at the compIex relationship between Amy-Jo (ElIe Fanning) and her father Joe (John Hawkes), a man torn between his musical ambition, his devotion to his teenage daughter, and his suffocating heroin addiction. Set against a sensuously textured 1970s Hollywood, the fiIm beautifuIly evokes a coIorfuI, seedy world of struggIing musicians, artists, and vagabonds, in which Joe and Amy-Jo strive to Iive the lives they want against seemingly insurmountabIe odds. |