The Saddest Music in the World

The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin, budgeted at 3.8million a large budget relative to the average Canadian film and shot overdays. The film was Maddins first collaboration with Isabella Rossellini, who subsequently appeared in a number of Maddins films, and cocreated a film with him about her father Roberto Rossellini.

During the Great depression in 1933 in Winnipeg, Canada, baroness Helen PortHuntley Isabella Rossellini announces a competition to find the saddest music in the world, as a publicity stunt to promote her company, Muskeg Beer, as Prohibition is about to end in the United States. The prize is 25,000 Depressionera dollars and musicians from all over the world pour into Winnipeg to compete. Chester Kent Mark McKinney, a failing Broadway producer, decides to enter the contest representing America, even though he is Canadian and originally from Winnipeg. An old fortune teller predicts his doom, but Chester mocks this prediction by having his nymphomaniac amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa Maria de Medeiros masturbate him. Also entering the contest are Chesters father Fyodor David Fox, representing Canada, and his brother Roderick Ross McMillan, representing Serbia as Gavrilo the Great even though he is also Canadian.It is revealed that Fyodor is in love with Helen, who he had once hoped to marry. However, Helen and Chester had an affair, and an accident involving the three occurred when Fyodor stepped out in front of Chesters car as Helen was performing oral sex on Chester. Helens legs were both amputated as a result, and Fyodor became an alcoholic, while Chester left for Broadway. With Chester returned, and his relationship with Helen renewed, Fyodor swears off drink and fashions prosthetic legs filled with beer in an attempt to earn Helens love. ........

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