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A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Subtitles : English Starring : Mark McKinney Isabella Rossellini Maria de Medeiros David Fox Ross McMillan
5 days ago · The Saddest Music in the World is 9242 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 6672 places since yesterday. In Canada, it is currently more popular than Sadie's Last Days on Earth but less popular than A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Rank. Title.
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Nov 16, 2004 · There is a contest to find the saddest music in this film, and there is some very interesting music from all over the world. There is a quite sad arrangement of "The Song is You," for cello, played by Chester's brother Roderick Kent, alias Gravillo the Great.
Nov 5, 2004 · The film is a wild orchestration of flamboyantly touching images and fair ground theatrics. by Josh Vasquez. November 5, 2004. Guy Maddin’s snow globe cinema, hermetically sealed in ghostly adoration of silent cinema, is well matched to this darkly comic fable about a legless beer baroness’s search for the saddest music in the world.
Apr 10, 2004 · Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin directs The Saddest Music in the World, reworked from an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, the film involves a contest announced by the legless and glamorous Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) to find the saddest music in the world.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2004. When a director's "primitive" style is as developed as Maddin's, your aesthetic response can seem like all the emotion you need, his thrill your ...
The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin. Budgeted at $3.8-million and shot over 24 days, the film marks Maddin's first collaboration with actor Isabella Rossellini. Maddin and co-screenwriter George Toles based the film on an original screenplay written by British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, from which they kept "the title, the premise and the contest – to determine which country’s music was the saddest" but otherwise re-wrote. Like most of Guy Maddin's ...
