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Perhaps the best compliment ever paid to Guy Maddin's cinematic work came from the world's best-known film watcher. In the opening line to a review of Maddin's critically acclaimed 2003 feature, "The Saddest Music in the World," Roger Ebert wrote: "So many movies travel the same weary roads. So few imagine entirely original worlds."
Even fewer filmmakers consistently share that vision on celluloid in the manner with which Winnipeg's Maddin approaches his art. Set in 1933 in his hometown - a location as familiar in his work as Manhattan is to Woody Allen's - "The Saddest Music" tells the surreal tale of legless brewery baroness Lady Port-Huntly (a blonde, wig-wearing Isabella Rossellini) who runs a contest in the "World Capital of Sorrow" to find the world's most melancholy music.
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