Name: The Saddest Music in the World
Released: 2004-04-30T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros

The Saddest Music in the World

Drama 2004 1 hr 40 min

Available on iTunes, IFC Films, AMC +, Prime Video

It's 1933 in Winnipeg and the Great Depression is in full bloom. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world, and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Sobbing Mexican Mariachis, dour Scottish Bagpipers, woeful West African drummers and numerous other grief-stricken ensembles give it their all. Down-on-his-luck Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) and his amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros) return home to his native Winnipeg as the United States entry in the contest. 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 Madden's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers.

Drama 2004 1 hr 40 min

Starring Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros

Director Guy Maddin