The Saddest Music in the World
The Saddest Music in the World

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It's the winter of 1933 in Winnipeg. In honor of Winnipeg being named the sorrow capital of the world for the Depression era for the fourth year running by the London Times, Lady Helen Port-Huntley, the legless owner of Winnipeg's Port-Huntley Beer, is hosting and judging a contest to see which nation has the saddest music in the world, the winner to take home a $25,000 prize. Seeing as to the current Prohibition in the United States, Lady Port-Huntley has ulterior motives fo... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Saddest Music in the World:

Isabella Rossellini
Mark McKinney
Maria de Medeiros
David Fox
Ross McMillan
Louis Negin

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It's the winter of 1933 in Winnipeg. In honor of Winnipeg being named the sorrow capital of the world for the Depression era for the fourth year running by the London Times, Lady Helen Port-Huntley, the legless owner of Winnipeg's Port-Huntley Beer, is hosting and judging a contest to see which nation has the saddest music in the world, the winner to take home a $25,000 prize. Seeing as to the current Prohibition in the United States, Lady Port-Huntley has ulterior motives for the contest. Father and son, streetcar conductor Fyodor Kent and New York based musical producer Chester Kent, who both have a past connection to Lady Port-Huntley (Fyodor, a WWI veteran and former doctor, has fashioned for her an unusual pair of artificial legs apropos to her business), want to represent Canada and the United States respectively in the contest. Despite Lady Port-Huntley's hatred for the Kent's, she does allow them to do so if only to advance her own priorities. As the contest takes place, the Kents, who also include Fyodor's other son/Chester's brother, Roderick Kent (who wants to represent Serbia in the contest, as his missing wife is Serbian), deal with their collective sorrow and family dysfunction, the latter issue which involves Chester's current girlfriend, an amnesiac named Narcissa.

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San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by Carla MeyerThe concept is high, the humor lowbrow and the joy of experimentation evident in every frame of this wonderful picture.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 10/10 by Duane DudekEveryone overacts to beat the band, in time to Maddin's madcap and totally original beat.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumGuy Maddin has reached a new expressive plateau with The Saddest Music in the World.
Toronto Star - 10/10 by Peter Howell[Maddin's] best and most imaginative picture to date.
Christian Science Monitor - 10/10 by David SterrittA deliciously weirded-out picture by Guy Maddin, a deliciously weirded-out Canadian filmmaker.
Variety - 9/10 by David RooneyAlmost as much an art piece as a film, this playful Prohibition-era tale is visually inventive and initially amusing but, at feature length, becomes somewhat wearing in its cacophonous eccentricity.
Los Angeles Daily News - 9/10 by Glenn WhippMaddin, like beer, is something of an acquired taste, best appreciated by those with an affinity to mainstream cinema's silent past and independent cinema's occasionally absurdist present.
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Roger EbertThe effect is strange and delightful; somehow the style lends quasi-credibility to a story that is entirely preposterous.
Las Vegas Mercury - 9/10 by Jeannette CatsoulisVital and delirious, The Saddest Music in the World hurtles along on twin tracks of vaudevillian humor and gleeful bad taste.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - 8/10 by Jeff ViceThe Saddest Music in the World is a hard little movie. Which doesn't mean that it's hard to watch, just that it's hard to describe and classify -- and harder still to critically analyze.

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