The Saddest Music in the World Movie (2003): Where to watch and stream online

The Saddest Music in the World

2003, Movie, 1h 41min

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

Country: Canada

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Reviews

Critic Anna Smith

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Rossellini oozes sinister charm as a double amputee who launches a competition to find - the saddest music in the world - during the Great Depression.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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With 'The Saddest Music in the World', Maddin has now delivered his most accomplished and accessible film, yet I can guarantee it looks and sounds like nothing you’ve ever seen before...

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Roger Ebert

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To see this film, to enter the world of Guy Maddin, is to understand how a film can be created entirely by its style, and how its style can create a world that never existed before, and lure us, at first bemused and then astonished, into it.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Saddest Music in the World include High Fidelity, As It Is in Heaven, Billy Elliot, Rock Star, High School Musical, Drumline.

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The Saddest Music in the World was released in theaters on April 10, 2004.