The Saddest Music in the World (Canada, 2003) November 12, 2010

Isabella Rossellini stars in Canadian filmaker Guy Maddin's newest film, 'The Saddest Music in the World' (color and b&w). When the Depression-era beer queen of Winnipeg, Lady Port-Huntly, announces a contest to find out what country has the world's saddest music, she unwittingly stirs up the ghosts of her own troubled past. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, this expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers.