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A 2003 Canadian film by Guy Maddin about a musical contest to find the saddest music in the world during the Great Depression. The film features a star-studded cast, a surreal plot, and a distinctive black-and-white style.
A film about a contest to find the saddest music in the world during the Great Depression, hosted by a beer baroness in Winnipeg. The film features a dark and surreal style, with distorted sets, 8 mm footage, and a cast of actors with unusual roles.
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...
May 14, 2004 · Set in 1933 Winnipeg, the film follows a contest for the saddest music, featuring bizarre characters and a style that evokes old films from an alternate timeline. Roger Ebert praises Maddin's originality and creativity in this review of his "Canadian Idol" fantasy.
Nov 10, 2023 · A 2003 black-and-white arthouse flick about a beer tycoon hosting a contest for the saddest music in the world. Isabella Rossellini plays a double-amputee with beer legs, and Mark McKinney is a tapeworm-ridden American ambassador to sadness.
The Saddest Music in the World, directed by Guy Maddin, and written by Maddin and George Toles based on an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro (author of An Artist of the Floating World, and The Remains of the Day), is more than one kind of moving picture: an experimental film; a musical comedy; a story of family troubles — an exploration ...
If you're looking for the saddest music to help you grieve, mourn, or just plain feel sad, these songs should do the trick. From heart-wrenching ballads to soul-crushing anthems, whatever you're reason to cry, these sad songs may help.
