The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

7.4	Listal rating
6.9	IMDB rating

Directed by

Guy Maddin

Starring (View all)

Mark McKinney

Chester Kent

Isabella Rossellini

Lady Helen Port-Huntley

Maria de Medeiros

Narcissa

David Fox

Fyodor Kent

Ross McMillan

Roderick Kent / Gravillo the Great

Louis Negin

Blind Seer

Darcy Fehr

Teddy

Claude Dorge

Duncan Elksworth

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Kazuo Ishiguro

George Toles

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A sort-of musical set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place - a $25,000 prize.

Release date : 12 May 2005
UPC: 027616911704

Beer (4), Surrealism (4), 2000s (4), Melodrama (3), Black And White (3), Mother Son Relationship (2), Misery (2), Canada (2), 2003 (2), Serbia (2), Death (2), Opera Glasses (1), Drummer (1), Leg (1), Bongo Drum (1), Undressing (1), Mounted Antlers (1), Underwear (1), Glass Coffin (1), Expressionism (1)

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" Lent to me by a listal friend :) Personally I find Guy Maddin's films (well, the two I've seen anyway) to be very visually interesting. The way he's able to make a film truly look as though it just came out of some vault after being lost since 1930 or so is fascinating to me. (Though I eventually did begin to wonder just how many jars of Vaseline he used on those lenses.) The Saddest Music in the World strikes me as something of a triumph in its ability to recreate and commemorate cinema of t"

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" I very glad that I watched "My Winnipeg" (2007) before I watched this film as it works well as a prologue to this film. So, if you have seen "My Winnipeg" this film is done in very much the same surrealist grainy film footage style. However, this film has a linear, if somewhat strange, storyline. While I liked the idea of a full feature semi-surrealist work, so far I still prefer Guy Maddin's shorter features."