
The Saddest Music in the World
"If you're sad, and like beer, I'm your lady."
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Release Date
9/17/2003Runtime
101 minsOverview
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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EnglishBudget
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A gleefully strange Depression-era musical farce where pain becomes spectacle and grief is the prize. It's a film that mourns while winking at you.
Mood
AbsurdMelancholicPlayfulBittersweet
Themes
GriefArt and creationAmbition
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
Stylized genrePainterlyHigh-contrast
Structure
Ensemble

Isabella Rossellini
Lady Helen Port-Huntley

Mark McKinney
Chester Kent

Maria de Medeiros
Narcissa

David Fox
Fyodor Kent
Ross McMillan
Roderick Kent / Gravillo the Great

Louis Negin
Blind Seer

Darcy Fehr
Teddy
Claude Dorge
Duncan Elksworth

Talia Pura
Mary

Adriana O'Neil
Agnes
Jeff Sutton
Young Chester
Graeme Valentin
Young Roderick
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