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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Review of Louie Bluie (1985)
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Louie Bluie was released in 1985 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 14 reviews, giving Louie Bluie (1985) an average rating of 80%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 89% and users giving an average score of 90%.
With a score of 80%, Louie Bluie is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1985, which stands at 59%.
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