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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.
May 12, 2005 · The Saddest Music in the World: Directed by Guy Maddin. With Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox. 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.
- (6.3K)
- Comedy, Musical
- Guy Maddin
- 2005-05-12
May 14, 2004 · The more films you have seen, the more you may love "The Saddest Music in the World." It plays like satirical nostalgia for a past that never existed. The actors bring that kind of earnestness to it that seems peculiar to supercharged melodrama.
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...
- 2 min
- 85.3K
- Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
Apr 30, 2003 · 'The Saddest Music in the World' is set in 1933 and stars Isabella Rossellini (Death Becomes Her) as the legless beer baroness, Lady Helen Port-Huntley, whose sad-ish life in the lonely and...
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- Guy Maddin
- R
- Mark Mckinney
In 1933, in Winnipeg during the American Great Depression, the legless baroness of beer industry, Lady Helen Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini), promotes a contest to choose the saddest music in the world and find where the real drinkers are.
Nov 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.
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