Claude Dorge, Darcy Fehr, David Fox
During the Winnipeg depression era, two brothers try to determine the saddest piece of music in the world, as part of an international competition announced by a double-amputee beer baroness Lady Port...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 16, 2004
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Flixster Reviews (439)
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June 2, 2008I haven't viewed much of Guy Maddin's work, but after seeing THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, I'm not in any hurry too. I really liked the setting, plot, and Isabella Rossellini, but the dialogue is terrible and the weird for weird's sake approach to the material is almost nausiat...( read more)
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January 16, 2008Five words: Isabella Rossellini Glass Beer Legs. I turely imaginative and funny story about broken hearts, revenge and capitalism.
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October 15, 2007I have to say, this is easily the weirdest thing I have ever seen. I loved the 1930's feel of the movie, and how America's "competetor(s)" in the contest turned out to be just as multicultural as the country itself.
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November 23, 2006A little goofy, kind of enjoyable and kind of dry. Catch it if you can but don't go out of your way.
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March 17, 2008Wow. This movie is a trip. From the beginning you are sucked right in to the grainy cinematic feel of depression era film. This would not have been a movie without the excellent cinematography. The saddest song in the world. "The Song is You" is a wonderfully sad song, but it was...( read more)
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September 24, 2009Every once in a while, I decide I'm going to dismantle my vocabulary and try to learn to speak filmically all over again, but then I discover new ways of expressing myself in this primitive fashion that make me as excited as a kid on the first day of kindergarten with a new box o...( read more)
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July 13, 2009Hypnotizing and bizarre. The camera work is extraordinary! This was my first introduction to Guy Maddin and I need to find some more of his films because so far, so good.
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February 17, 2009Isabella Rosolini with fake legs full of beer? Mark McKinney from kids in the hall? What the hell is going on here? I don't know, but keep it coming.
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January 18, 2009well umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch..i think that Isabella Rossellini plays a good part throughout this movie..i think that the director of this Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy movie had done a really good job of directing thi...( read more)
Critic Reviews
June 18, 2004
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
May 22, 2004
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's a rare film today that doesn't assume audiences are stupid. Weird as they might be, Maddin gives us credit for being in on his esoteric jokes. full review
May 22, 2004
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Narratively and spiritually, the movie is bankrupt, even though it's so packed with stuff ... that you can hardly bring yourself to believe that it all adds up to nothing. full review
May 14, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
To see this film, to enter the world of Guy Maddin, is to understand how a film can be created entirely by its style, and how its style can create a world that never existed before, and lure us, at fi... full review
May 13, 2004
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
To say that The Saddest Music in the World is not for everyone is to state the obvious. But who's to say whom it is not for? Not me. full review
May 4, 2004
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
The grainy black-and-white cinematography gives the film an otherworldly feeling. full review
April 30, 2004
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Maddin speaks in an almost lost, elusive and poetic language of filmmaking. full review
April 29, 2004
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
This feature from the antiquarian avant-gardist Guy Maddin is a sublime, hallucinatory musical, full of surprising humor and genuine sorrow. full review
Comments
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June 2, 2008Just watched this.
I wanted to like it, but I found it quite terrible.
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