bsurb, delightful and a little bit drunk - cinema like nothing you've ever seen before It is 1933, the height of the Great Depression. To boost sales, beer baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world. Musicians from every corner of the globe including Siam, Mexico and Scotland flock to wintry Winnipeg -- the world capital of sorrow -- to vie for the colossal $25,000 prize. The only film you will ever see in your entire life to feature a gorgeous female amputee whose artificial glass legs are filled with beer!
3 short films by Guy Madden, 'A Trip to the Orphanage' 'Sissy Boy Slap Party' and 'Sombra Dolorosa' "Teardrops in the Snow: The Making of The Saddest Music in the World", Theatrical Trailer
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Beautiful abstract expressionist style film,very creative, art with the bit of magic which represents the cruelty of the life in a very poetic motion picture.
Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin.
It expresses art design through extraordinary visual textures with the compatible music.
The style of the film is during 1920's and early 1930's cinema, with black and white photography.
The setting of the film is during the great depression in Winnipeg, Canada,fortune teller is predicting the future for arrogant Chester Kent, a unsuccessful Broadway producer and his mentally troubled girl friend.
The fortune teller predicts doom and gloom, but Chester makes fun of it and he goes to Winnipeg.
The story is about the competition announced by beer magnate to find The saddest music in the world.
Musician from all over the world come to competition to try their luck but the contest eventually becomes a battle ground within one family.
A patriotic Canadian father and his two sons,one of whom represents the U.S.A
and the other Serbia.
The baroness Lady Helen(Isabella Rossellini)announces a competition to find the Saddest music in the world in a hope that she can raise the sales of her beer.
The whole story goes around lady Helen and the father and his two sons in the competition, tastefully.
Over all, very unique film for audience who love weird metaphoric illusion.
Loved it,very creative artistic film. Maddin did a great job in that specific regard, very impressive.
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