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Before David Lynch was coddled with big budgets that didn't

serve his aesthetic, he might've fashioned something as

spiky and rarified as Guy Maddin's black-and-white,

eminently diverting dirge of a movie. Heiress Lady

Port-Huntly (Lynch alumna Isabella Rossellini), wobbling

atop glass prosthetic legs churning with beer (yes, beer),

announces a global contest in which the saddest music in the

world wins $25,000. Among the droves who flock to her home

base of wintry, Depression-era Winnipeg are weeping

mariachis, wailing bagpipers, an amnesiac siren with a

talking tapeworm, and a scapegrace Broadway producer,

Chester Kent, Port-Huntly's no-good ex. Complete with

sparkly snow and a rough-hewn flamboyance, The Saddest Music

in the World may be the most original movie released since

Being John Malkovich surprised us all. (LR)



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