SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (THE)
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During the depths of the Great Depression, beer baroness Lady Port-Huntly announces a global competition to determine the “saddest” music in the world. Musicians from across the globe pour into Winnipeg to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. The Kent family confronts the wretched secrets of their past while locked in the competition for this greatest of prizes. Younger brother Chester, the cynical and failed Broadway producer, is ready to mesmerize all with a little Yankee Doodle razzle-dazzle hanky honker. Older brother Roderick, a cellist who has returned from post-war Serbia, is inconsolable over the disappearance of his beloved wife. Their despairing father Fyodor is tormented with guilt over the accidental amputation of the legs of his one true love, Lady Port-Huntly. To complicate matters further, enter the dark angel Narcissa, an otherworldly nymphomaniac sleepwalker who has become Chester’s latest companion and muse.
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Guy Maddin
Director
Guy Maddin has carved an international reputation and earned high acclaim for his unique films. Maddin is a two-time winner of the U.S. National Society of Critics Award for Best Experimental Film, most recently for The Heart of the World in 2000. His most recent work, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary, was awarded an International Emmy and the Golden Prague in 2002. In 1995, Maddin was the recipient of the Telluride Medal for Life Time Achievement at the Telluride Film Festival, the youngest person ever to have been awarded this honour. Maddin’s other feature works include: Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997), and Careful (1995). Retrospectives of Maddin's work have been shown in Paris, Spain, Buenos Aires, Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York.
35 mm
90 minutes
Colour, black and white
Aspect ratio
1.85
Original version in English |
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Producers
Niv Fichman
Daniel Iron
Coproducer
Phyllis Laing
Executive Producer
Atom Egoyan
Director
Guy Maddin
Scriptwriters
George Toles
Guy Maddin
Based on an original screenplay by
Kazuo Ishiguro
Director of Photography
Luc Montpellier
Editing
David Wharnsby
Sound
Russ Dyck
Production Designer
Matthew Davies
Cast
Mark McKinney
Isabella Rossellini
Maria de Medeiros
David Fox
Ross McMillan
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Production
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Distribution – Canada
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International distribution
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Toronto, Ontario
M5V 3P8
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www.rhombusmedia.com
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