Joya de la historia de un pequeño guitarrista de jazz en los comienzos del género, con un guion dramáticamente cómico. Un prodigio filmado a ritmo de jazz.

An enjoyable docudrama from Woody Allen. Sean Penn and Samantha Morton are both terrific.

Perhaps it helps that I'm somewhat familiar with jazz from this era and found many references and jokes to be apt, but the average movie-goer would be left relatively bored. One of Penn's best performances tho.

Joya de la historia de un pequeño guitarrista de jazz en los comienzos del género, con un guion dramáticamente cómico. Un prodigio filmado a ritmo de jazz.

Penn seems more like he's caught up in a fit of roustabout nut jobbing than actual acting. (All for our benefit, of course.)

79/100

Que la pelicula tenga de protagonista un guitarrista de jazz es meramente anecdotico,aunque mola mucho.Podría ser un medico,un contable o un ferretero,DA IGUAL por qué todas las señas de las peliculas de Woody Allen estan aqui.Sean Penn,la versión masculina de Mery Streep lo borda.

The fact that the film has a jazz guitar player as the main character it´s anecdotic,but kinda cool.The main character could be a doctor,an accountant or a worker in a warehouse,DOESN´T MIND,because all the tips from Woody Allen´s films are here.Sean Penn,the male Meryl Streep in this film just kick ass.

This fictional jazz biography is one of Woody Allen's best. It's funny and poignant, and Penn and Morton are teriffic in it.

This is Woody Allen's 1999 airbrushed biography of 1930s anti-hero jazz guitarist Emmet Ray. Ray rose to some degree of fame in U. S. and Europe but he disappeared from sight after a few grand years. We get to hear a number of beautiful guitar pieces in the course of the film as well as a closeup of the underlife of the subject. He was a pimp, lived off women, cavorted with other lowlifes, liked to watch trains run in the night and to kill rats at a dump. The natural super-ego of Sean Penn as Ray works perfectly for his role about a braggart without a shread of self-doubt. There is not a lot here except the music, the good writing of Woody, and a, perhaps, the aggrandized view of history. Still it is not a bad film.