Synopsis
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
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Cast
- Isabella RosselliniLady Helen Port-Huntley
- Mark McKinneyChester Kent
- Maria de MedeirosNarcissa
- David FoxFyodor Kent
- Ross McMillanRoderick Kent / Gravillo the Great
- Louis NeginBlind Seer
- Darcy FehrTeddy
- Claude DorgeDuncan Elksworth
- Talia PuraMary
- Adriana O'NeilAgnes
Recommandations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
A deliciously weirded-out picture by Guy Maddin, a deliciously weirded-out Canadian filmmaker. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
Hard to say who's luckier -- those who have seen the work of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin before and know what to expect, or those who haven't and for whom The Saddest Music in the World serves as an eye-popping introduction. - 80
Time
In a movie age when there's hardly a garde, let alone an avant-garde, Maddin proves there are many languages to cinema, including the dead one of antique film. And in that language, he sings, he soars. - 80
Village Voice
Because everything is funny and nothing provides a punchline, audiences may be too shell-shocked to laugh--you know you're in Maddinville when individual cackles detonate at unexpected intervals. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
This exercise in style and tongue-in-cheek melodrama from Canada's iconoclastic Guy Maddin will be lionized by admirers for its audacity, but will wear thin for many audience members, who will find it tedious and repetitive. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Too much of this fantasy is filled out with artsy folderol, but it's a movie like no other--except, maybe, one by Guy Maddin. - 70
Variety
Almost as much an art piece as a film, this playful Prohibition-era tale is visually inventive and initially amusing but, at feature length, becomes somewhat wearing in its cacophonous eccentricity. - 70
The A.V. Club
Maddin films have a higher rate of invention per frame than the majority of his peers can muster.
