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anna1440
Critic Anna Smith
rated 6

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

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roger177
Critic Roger Ebert
rated 8

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.

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Cast & Crew

Guy Maddin
Director
Guy Maddin
Writer
Isabella Rossellini
As Lady Helen Port-Huntley
Maria de Medeiros
As Narcissa
Mark McKinney
As Chester Kent
Louis Negin
As Blind Seer
David Fox
As Fyodor Kent
Darcy Fehr
As Teddy

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