The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
September 17, 2003Release Date
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
September 17, 2003Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Isabella Rossellini
Lady Helen Port-Huntley
Mark McKinney
Chester Kent
Maria de Medeiros
Narcissa
David Fox
Fyodor Kent
Ross McMillan
Roderick Kent
Louis Negin
Blind Seer
Darcy Fehr
Teddy
Claude Dorge
Duncan Elksworth
Adriana O'Neil
Agnes
Talia Pura
Mary
Graeme Valentin
Young Roderick
Jeff Sutton
Young Chester
Maggie Nagle
Chester's Mother
Guy Maddin
Director
Victor Cowie
Man in Bar
Kazuo Ishiguro
Writer
George Toles
Writer
Jessica Burleson
Lady's Secretary
Wayne Nicklas
Boardmember
Nancy Drake
American Mother
Niv Fichman
Producer
Jody Shapiro
Producer
David Gillies
American Father
Christopher Dedrick
Composer
Daphne Korol
Widow
Luc Montpellier
Cinematographer
Jeff Skinner
Reverend
Craig Aftanas
Old Sleepwalker
David Wharnsby
Editor
John Buchan
CastingDirector
Miles Boisselle
Guard
Brock MacGregor
Roderick's Son
Matthew Davies
ProductionDesigner
Daniel Iron
Executive Producer
Atom Egoyan
Executive Producer
Stephen Arndt
Set Decoration
Réjean Labrie
Art Direction
Doug Morrow
Makeup Artist
David Rose
Sound Designer
Sheena Macdonald
Co-Producer
Larry Weinstein
Associate Producer
Mark Gebel
Special Effects
Phyllis Laing
Co-Producer
Catherina Saites
Hairstylist
David McCallum
Supervising Sound Editor
Lou Solakofski
Sound Designer
Barbara Willis Sweete
Associate Producer
Mark Shnuriwsky
Sound Effects Editor
Martin Lee
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Meg McMillan
Costume Design
Amanda Kuryk
Makeup Artist
Russ Dyck
Sound Designer
Richard O'Brien-Moran
First Assistant Director
Barry Olafson
Hairstylist
Danielle Dumesnil
Second Assistant Director
Beverly A. Hamilton
Hairstylist
Frances Hans
Makeup Artist
Michael Peleshok
Third Assistant Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 17, 2003
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingR
Genres
Wiki.
The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin. Budgeted at $3.8-million and shot over 24 days, the film marks Maddin's first collaboration with actor Isabella Rossellini.Maddin and co-screenwriter George Toles based the film on an original screenplay written by British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, from which they kept "the title, the premise and the contest – to determine which country’s music was the saddest" but otherwise re-wrote. Like most of Guy Maddin's films, The Saddest Music in the World is filmed in a style that imitates late 1920s and early 1930s cinema, with grainy black-and-white photography, slightly out-of-sync sound and expressionist art design. A few scenes are filmed in colour, in a manner that imitates early two-strip Technicolor.