Panel Statements:
Guy Maddin to the max. Making the most of an international cast and an enormously ambitious narrative, Maddin makes his best film since Careful... a gorgeous, visionary, oddball tour de force about sibling rivalry, romantic obsession, artistic expression, and Canada-U.S. relations. You don't see that every day.
— Jeremy Podeswa
By now, Guy Maddin's flair for the archaic, the weird and the downright perverse is so well established that it seems strangely inevitable he'd someday convince Isabella Rossellini to wear two glass legs full of beer. But Maddin's greatest achievement in The Saddest Music in the World is the way he turbo-charges his occasionally lackadaisical approach to narrative in order to create a highly propulsive mix of delirious melodrama and scabrous satire.
— Jason Anderson
I've always held to the notion that a truly "Canadian" film would have to be one that you couldn't imagine being made anywhere but here, by anyone but a Canadian. I had given up believing there would ever be such a thing – and then I saw Maddin's masterpiece. A satire of a pastiche of an homage to Canada and its relationship with the United States of America, this is the triumph of imagination over commonsense.
— Denis Seguin
Guy Maddin is a true visionary artist, who holds a unique place in the pantheon of world cinema. Who else would spin such a florid yarn about amputee beer baronesses with beer-filled glass legs, failed Broadway empressarios, lonely cello players and somnambulistic nymphomaniacs, and set the whole thing in 1930s Winnipeg? No one.
— Bill Evans
Special thanks to TVA.
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THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD
Director: Guy Maddin
99 minutes Colour and Black and White/35mm
Production Company: Rhombus Media Inc./Buffalo Gal Pictures Inc.
Executive Producers: Atom Egoyan, Daniel Iron
Producer: Niv Fichman, Jody Shapiro
Screenplay: Guy Maddin, George Toles, based on an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cinematography: Luc Montpellier
Editor: David Wharnsby
Production Designer: Matthew Davies
Sound: Russ Dyck, David McCallum
Music: Christopher Dedrick
Principal Cast: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Ross McMillan
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Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg. He has carved an international reputation for unique films such as Tales From The Gimli Hospital (88) and the recent Cowards Bend the Knee (03) installation piece. Among his numerous accolades are a Genie Award for best live-action short for The Heart of the World (00), which was produced for the Festival's Preludes in 2000, and Gemini and Emmy Awards for Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (02). In 1995, Maddin received a Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the Telluride Film Festival, the youngest person ever to have been awarded this honour. Feature works include Archangel (90), Careful (92), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (97) and The Saddest Music in the World (03).
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