The Saddest Music in the World

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 ...more

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 closest the cult favorite has come to mainstream acceptance. The movie is set in Depression-era Winnipeg, home of beer baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella ...more