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Director: Guy Maddin
Genres: Period Film, Musical Drama, Musical, Avant-garde / Experimental
Released Date: April 30, 2004 (USA
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Summary:
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin directs The Saddest Music in the World, reworked from an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, the film involves a contest announced by the legless and glamorous Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) to find the saddest music in the world. She's hoping the contest will result in increased sales of... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Mark McKinney - (Chester Kent)
Isabella Rossellini - (Lady Port-Huntly)
Maria de Medeiros - (Narcissa)
David Fox - (Fyodor Kent)
Ross McMillan - (Roderick Kent)
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Review:
A feverish whirligig of a movie, The Saddest Music in the World finds Canadian director Guy_Maddin continuing his career-long excavation of the dead idioms of cinema past. Coming on the heels of Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary and the exhilarating short The Heart of the World, a masterpiece that signaled his resurgence, this is the... Continue >>

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