Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a
documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic
visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known
black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a
performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and
Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate
tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy,
Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.
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