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THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD
Canada 2003, 99 min. Director/Réalisateur:
Guy Maddin
“It is 1933, the height of the Great Depression. To boost sales,
beer baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global
competition to determine the saddest music in the world. Musicians from
every corner of the globe flock to wintry Winnipeg — the world
capital of sorrow — to vie for the colossal $25,000 prize. Filmed
in tantalizing black and white in the style of a Golden Age musical
melodrama — with Guy Maddin’s singular, lavish direction
— THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD is a visually rapturous, appallingly
funny tour de force. Mining the forgotten treasures of cinematic history,
Maddin is one of the most distinctive and alluring filmmaking talents
at work today.”
(Stacey Donen, Toronto International Film Festival)
We
thank Rhombus Media and TVA Films for allowing us to show this film.
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