Low Down: Sundance Review

This first feature from longtime experimental filmmaker and cinematographer Jeff Preiss gets major boosts from a first-rate cast led by John Hawkes and Elle Fanning. An immersion in the crippling drugs-and-jazz lifestyle in the dregs of 1970s Hollywood, rather than a strongly shaped drama, Low Down pungently and, at its best, gently evokes a very down period in the life of jazz pianist Joe Albany. This first feature from longtime experimental filmmaker and cinematographer Jeff Preiss places grea...