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''The Saddest Music in the World'' is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Creator/GuyMaddin, starring Creator/IsabellaRossellini and [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall Mark McKinney]].
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''The Saddest Music in the World'' is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Creator/GuyMaddin, starring Creator/IsabellaRossellini and [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall Mark McKinney]].
McKinney]]. The film was loosely adapted from an original screenplay by Creator/KazuoIshiguro, though only the title and the basic conceit were retained. It is the most expensive film of Maddin's career (with a budget of $3.8 million, quite lavish by Canadian standards), and with an AllStarCast, was his highest-profile film, with his leading lady even doing press to promote it.
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This film marked the beginning of a years-long collaborative partnership between Maddin and Rossellini, who made several more films together.
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* {{Cuckold}}: Fyodor Kent. Helen mentions that she cheated with Chester right under Fyodor's nose who started suspecting being subjected to this trope.
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* {{Cuckold}}: Fyodor Kent. Helen mentions that she [[YourCheatingHeart cheated]] with Chester right under Fyodor's nose who started suspecting being subjected to this trope.
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* {{Cuckold}}: Fyodor Kent. Helen mentions that she [[YourCheatingHeart cheated]] cheated with Chester right under Fyodor's nose who started suspecting being subjected to this trope.
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* PracticalEffects: The low-fi look of the film was achieved by practical means rather than alterations in post production:
** Vaseline was put on the lenses which makes the film appear "fuzzy" in places.
** The film was shot with black and white Super 8 film, then blown up to 35mm.
** Guy Maddin also uses one direct light source (or at least the illusion of one light source) which blanches the actors' faces and gives his films a very shadowy feel.
** They shot on old film stock and with old lenses which they would scratch to make little gashes appear on the film throughout, then rotate the lens so that gashes appeared in different places during the course of the film.
** Vaseline was put on the lenses which makes the film appear "fuzzy" in places.
** The film was shot with black and white Super 8 film, then blown up to 35mm.
** Guy Maddin also uses one direct light source (or at least the illusion of one light source) which blanches the actors' faces and gives his films a very shadowy feel.
** They shot on old film stock and with old lenses which they would scratch to make little gashes appear on the film throughout, then rotate the lens so that gashes appeared in different places during the course of the film.
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* RightThroughTheWall: Fyodor and Roderick walk in to hear Chester making loud sex with Narcissa upstairs.
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* RightThroughTheWall: Fyodor and Roderick walk in to hear Chester making loud sex noises while getting it on with Narcissa upstairs.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Helen, who lost her legs in a car accident.
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* EmptyShell: Roderick. He never recovered from the DespairEventHorizon he went through after his son died and his wife left in the aftermath.
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* EmptyShell: Roderick. He never recovered from the having gone through a DespairEventHorizon he went through after his son died and his wife left in the aftermath.
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* GlobalIgnorance: One title card announces "Canada versus Africa".
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* GlassShatteringSound: Roderick creates a sounds with his cello that make Helen's glass legs break.
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* GlassShatteringSound: Roderick creates a sounds high pitched sound with his cello that make makes Helen's glass legs break.
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* CrystalBall: In the opening scene the FortuneTeller uses a block of ice as a crystal ball.
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* MissingMom: Minor plot point. In a flashback at the FortuneTeller's we learn that Chester's mom died when he was still a child.
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''The Saddest Music in the World'' is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Creator/GuyMaddin, starring Creator/IsabellaRossellini.
Set in Winnipeg during the TheGreatDepression, a legless baroness host a contest for the saddest music in the world, with a grand prize of $25,000. During the assembly of contestants a father and his two sons; one who thinks he's an American, one who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son and his ex-lovers nymphomaniac tendencies and the father a pathetic drunkard who fucks everything up. Their unique dynamics with the beer-baroness and tragedy bring these characters together to express their deep feelings of pain and give in to treachery.
Set in Winnipeg during the TheGreatDepression, a legless baroness host a contest for the saddest music in the world, with a grand prize of $25,000. During the assembly of contestants a father and his two sons; one who thinks he's an American, one who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son and his ex-lovers nymphomaniac tendencies and the father a pathetic drunkard who fucks everything up. Their unique dynamics with the beer-baroness and tragedy bring these characters together to express their deep feelings of pain and give in to treachery.
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''The Saddest Music in the World'' is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Creator/GuyMaddin, starring Creator/IsabellaRossellini.
Creator/IsabellaRossellini and [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall Mark McKinney]].
Set in Winnipeg duringthe TheGreatDepression, a legless baroness host a contest for the saddest music in the world, with a grand prize of $25,000. During the assembly of contestants a father and his two sons; one who thinks he's an American, one who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son and his ex-lovers nymphomaniac tendencies and the father a pathetic drunkard who fucks everything up. Their unique dynamics with the beer-baroness and tragedy bring these characters together to express their deep feelings of pain and give in to treachery.
Set in Winnipeg during
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* NeverLiveItDown: Roderick is still cross with his brother for the latter stealing his music box ten years ago. His father calls him out for this.
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->''"If you are sad and like beer, I'm your lady."''
-->-- '''Lady Helen Port-Huntley'''
''The Saddest Music in the World'' is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Creator/GuyMaddin, starring Creator/IsabellaRossellini.
Set in Winnipeg during the TheGreatDepression, a legless baroness host a contest for the saddest music in the world, with a grand prize of $25,000. During the assembly of contestants a father and his two sons; one who thinks he's an American, one who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son and his ex-lovers nymphomaniac tendencies and the father a pathetic drunkard who fucks everything up. Their unique dynamics with the beer-baroness and tragedy bring these characters together to express their deep feelings of pain and give in to treachery.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* {{Bookends}}: The FortuneTeller from the beginning is shown again laughing at [[spoiler:Chester's]] demise in the final scene.
* ChekhovMIA: Roderick asks his father if he has seen his missing wife and sure enough she turns out to be Chester's current lover.
* CombatCommentator: The two commentators at the music contest.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Chester has no problem playing the piano sitting in a room on fire.
* CreatorThumbprint: Winnipeg (Guy Maddin's hometome) as a setting.
* {{Cuckold}}: Fyodor Kent. Helen mentions that she [[YourCheatingHeart cheated]] with Chester right under Fyodor's nose who started suspecting being subjected to this trope.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The movie was shot on black and white film to made it appear 1920/30-ish.
* EmptyShell: Roderick. He never recovered from the DespairEventHorizon he went through after his son died and his wife left in the aftermath.
* EvilLaughter: The FortuneTeller laughs this way at Chester in the beginning [[{{Bookends}} and the end]].
* GlassShatteringSound: Roderick creates a sounds with his cello that make Helen's glass legs break.
* GreenEyedMonster: Roderick, seeing his wife with Chester.
* LiquidCourage: Fyodor Kent takes a nip from his flask before sawing off Helen's (wrong) leg.
* {{Motifs}}: Death and intense emotions seem to coincide with the breaking of glass. The jar holding the son's heart breaking, the father breaking through a pane of glass and falling to his death/drowns in beer, the legs breaking, Chester being stabbed by a shard of glass.
* NeverLiveItDown: Roderick is still cross with his brother for the latter stealing his music box ten years ago. His father calls him out for this.
* PardonMeStewardessISpeakIambicPentameter: The title "The Saddest Music in the World" is an example of iambic tetrameter (four feet, each going from an unstressed syllable to stressed).
* PracticalEffects: The low-fi look of the film was achieved by practical means rather than alterations in post production:
** Vaseline was put on the lenses which makes the film appear "fuzzy" in places.
** The film was shot with black and white Super 8 film, then blown up to 35mm.
** Guy Maddin also uses one direct light source (or at least the illusion of one light source) which blanches the actors' faces and gives his films a very shadowy feel.
** They shot on old film stock and with old lenses which they would scratch to make little gashes appear on the film throughout, then rotate the lens so that gashes appeared in different places during the course of the film.
* RightThroughTheWall: Fyodor and Roderick walk in to hear Chester making loud sex with Narcissa upstairs.
* SoftWater: Averted. Fyodor dies falling through the glass roof into the beer pool.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Fyodor still wears his uniform from the great war.
* TimeCompressionMontage: The passage of the music contest is compressed in a couple of key shots juxtaposed with music sheets as [[SpinningPaper Spinning Papers]].
* TrashTheSet: Fyodor trashes his studio towards the end out of frustration.
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->''"If you are sad and like beer, I'm your lady."''
-->-- '''Lady Helen Port-Huntley'''
''The Saddest Music in the World'' is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Creator/GuyMaddin, starring Creator/IsabellaRossellini.
Set in Winnipeg during the TheGreatDepression, a legless baroness host a contest for the saddest music in the world, with a grand prize of $25,000. During the assembly of contestants a father and his two sons; one who thinks he's an American, one who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son and his ex-lovers nymphomaniac tendencies and the father a pathetic drunkard who fucks everything up. Their unique dynamics with the beer-baroness and tragedy bring these characters together to express their deep feelings of pain and give in to treachery.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* {{Bookends}}: The FortuneTeller from the beginning is shown again laughing at [[spoiler:Chester's]] demise in the final scene.
* ChekhovMIA: Roderick asks his father if he has seen his missing wife and sure enough she turns out to be Chester's current lover.
* CombatCommentator: The two commentators at the music contest.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Chester has no problem playing the piano sitting in a room on fire.
* CreatorThumbprint: Winnipeg (Guy Maddin's hometome) as a setting.
* {{Cuckold}}: Fyodor Kent. Helen mentions that she [[YourCheatingHeart cheated]] with Chester right under Fyodor's nose who started suspecting being subjected to this trope.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The movie was shot on black and white film to made it appear 1920/30-ish.
* EmptyShell: Roderick. He never recovered from the DespairEventHorizon he went through after his son died and his wife left in the aftermath.
* EvilLaughter: The FortuneTeller laughs this way at Chester in the beginning [[{{Bookends}} and the end]].
* GlassShatteringSound: Roderick creates a sounds with his cello that make Helen's glass legs break.
* GreenEyedMonster: Roderick, seeing his wife with Chester.
* LiquidCourage: Fyodor Kent takes a nip from his flask before sawing off Helen's (wrong) leg.
* {{Motifs}}: Death and intense emotions seem to coincide with the breaking of glass. The jar holding the son's heart breaking, the father breaking through a pane of glass and falling to his death/drowns in beer, the legs breaking, Chester being stabbed by a shard of glass.
* NeverLiveItDown: Roderick is still cross with his brother for the latter stealing his music box ten years ago. His father calls him out for this.
* PardonMeStewardessISpeakIambicPentameter: The title "The Saddest Music in the World" is an example of iambic tetrameter (four feet, each going from an unstressed syllable to stressed).
* PracticalEffects: The low-fi look of the film was achieved by practical means rather than alterations in post production:
** Vaseline was put on the lenses which makes the film appear "fuzzy" in places.
** The film was shot with black and white Super 8 film, then blown up to 35mm.
** Guy Maddin also uses one direct light source (or at least the illusion of one light source) which blanches the actors' faces and gives his films a very shadowy feel.
** They shot on old film stock and with old lenses which they would scratch to make little gashes appear on the film throughout, then rotate the lens so that gashes appeared in different places during the course of the film.
* RightThroughTheWall: Fyodor and Roderick walk in to hear Chester making loud sex with Narcissa upstairs.
* SoftWater: Averted. Fyodor dies falling through the glass roof into the beer pool.
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Fyodor still wears his uniform from the great war.
* TimeCompressionMontage: The passage of the music contest is compressed in a couple of key shots juxtaposed with music sheets as [[SpinningPaper Spinning Papers]].
* TrashTheSet: Fyodor trashes his studio towards the end out of frustration.
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