Review of The Saddest Music in the World (2003) by Tim L — 28 Jul 2009
One of the strangest films I've ever seen. As with any good spoof, it is important to truly know what you are spoofing in order to keep the authenticity and thus increase the effectiveness of the spoof. Guy Maddin has obviously painstakingly studied 'silent' films and particularly the more arty images of film makers such as Fritz Lang or Ingmar Bergman, and presents some beautiful cinematography that they would've been proud of.
Madden takes the potential pretentiousness of these sorts of 'art films' and takes it like any good spoof to it's logical extreme. This creates an incredibly strange, surreal and challenging film, with some great lines like - 'Tape worm are more chewers than talkers...I always trust my tapeworm.'.
Apart from funny lines like this, the always mesmorising Isabella Rosellina and other great ideas such as beer filled glass prosthetic legs (not many people could've thought of that idea!), this is a hard going film that isn't to everyone's taste, but I enjoyed a lot of it.
This review of The Saddest Music in the World (2003) was written by Tim L on 28 Jul 2009.
The Saddest Music in the World has generally received positive reviews.
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