Review of The Saddest Music in the World (2003) by Richard D — 22 May 2013

I always think of Maddin's films as answering a "what if" question ... What if the technology of movie making had never advanced even though our sensibilities did? His stylistic homages to silent film steel feel strikingly modern.

While not his best film (an honour I'd probably give to "Careful"), this is probably the nest entry point to his filmography. Very familiar actors ... Isabella Rosselini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Madeiros .

.. share the screen with Maddin regulars like Ross McMillan. Kazuo Ishiguro's screenplay is a much more conventional narrative than earlier Maddin films.