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Saddest Music In The World R2 Ws (Uk Import) - Maddin, GuyReleasedatum: 4 oktober 2010
Winnipeg 1933: it’s the midst of the Great Depression and beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from across the globe – from Mexican mariachi to Scottish bagpipers to African drummers – travel to Winnipeg to play their woeful tunes in hopes of winning the $25,000 grand prize. Failed Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) brings his amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros) home to his native Winnipeg and enter the competition as the American contingent. He soon finds himself embroiled in a family reunion as treacherous and twisted as the competition itself. Ultimately, a cataclysmic fire and the machinations of fate sort matters out for the sad characters and the denizens of the saddest city on earth. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers. Based on an original screenplay by Booker prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro.
DVD Extra's:
Feature commentary track by Guy Maddin and Mark McKinney. Cowards Bend the Knee (featurette). Teardrops in the Snow - The Making of the Saddest Music in the World. Three Short films by Guy Maddin - Sissy Boy Slap Party, A Trip to the Orphanage and Sombra Dolorosa. Live in London: A Saddest Music Concert.
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