The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
DVDRip | MKV | 708x462 | x264 @ 2428 Kbps | 100 min | 2,06 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
DVDRip | MKV | 708x462 | x264 @ 2428 Kbps | 100 min | 2,06 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Director: Guy Maddin
Writers: Kazuo Ishiguro (original screenplay), George Toles
Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros
In this experimental musical set in 1930s Winnipeg, Canada, amputee baroness Lady Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) organizes a competition offering $25,000 to the person who can compose the saddest music in the world. Musicians – including a depressed Broadway producer (Mark McKinney), his guilt-stricken father (David Fox) and a Serbian cellist (Ross McMillan) – flock to Winnipeg with the hope that they will be the best at conveying tragedy and grief in their music.
IMDB - 6 wins
Don't be scared away by people who warn that this movie is too difficult or bizarre. This film will appeal to more than just the usual cabal of obscurantists and nerdy cultists. The plot is quite straightforward: a depression-era beer baroness commissions a contest whose aim it is to find the saddest music in the world. As a result, scores of zany musicians from around the world descend on frost-bitten Winnipeg to win a $25000 prize. Hilarity ensues.
That's not to say the movie doesn't have its fair share of the absurd, the bizarre, and the dark (it *is* a Canadian film, after all). Lines are delivered with strange inflections, characters' motivations are screwy, filmic styles are mixed. None of these, however, comes off as pretentious or forced.
The film explores the interesting paradox that despite the reality and ubiquity of real sadness, authentic expressions of sadness are difficult and rare.
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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
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