Watch this movie for its imagination, not its logic.
The Saddest Music in the World
"If you're sad, and like beer, I'm your lady."
2003 · 1h 40m · R
Comedy, Drama, Music
Directed by
Guy Maddin
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The Saddest Music in the World
Overview
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
Director and cast
- Guy Maddin Director
- Isabella Rossellini as Lady Helen Port-Huntley
- Mark McKinney as Chester Kent
- Maria de Medeiros as Narcissa
- David Fox as Fyodor Kent
- Ross McMillan as Roderick Kent / Gravillo the Great
- Louis Negin as Blind Seer
- Darcy Fehr as Teddy
- Claude Dorge as Duncan Elksworth
- Talia Pura as Mary
- Adriana O'Neil as Agnes
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Silly, sick and surreal, it's a triumph of style over message or entertainment value.
The weirdest movie of the summer. OK, the year.
From time to time during the 99-minute running time, I kept thinking of those old Off Off Broadway impositions on wriggly audiences -- or was it just me who was the transplanted Village square trapped among all the hipsters?
Provocative title, provocative premise, provocative direction, routine movie.
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