The Saddest Music in the World

[Ghetta Life]

Yes, I've seen this one.  Guy maddin's a wild and crazy ...  He's made a 
number of obscure and strangely surreal films.  But the only other one I've 
seen is "Careful," a parable of sexual repression in which a whole village 
set below a mountain prone to avalanches has always to be carefule not to 
cause the triggering noise.

By coincidence, today's NYT had an article about Isabella Rossellini in 
another Maddin film:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/08/movies/08ross.html

Tribeca Film Festival
Isabella Rossellini plays her mother, Ingrid Bergman, in "My Dad Is 100 
Years Old," directed by Guy Maddin. She also plays Hitchcock and Fellini.

The groundbreaking Italian director Roberto Rossellini was born 100 years 
ago today, which makes him sound like a dusty relic. Yet he learned 
firsthand the perils of the age of celebrity in 1949, when Ingrid Bergman 
(married to someone else) became pregnant with his child, the couple's fame 
turned to infamy and they were effectively exiled from Hollywood.

All these years later, at least one of their children has failed to 
calculate how media attention can boomerang. Ingrid Rossellini has 
complained publicly about "My Dad Is 100 Years Old," a short film written by 
and starring her twin sister, the actress Isabella Rossellini, and directed 
by the innovative Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. Ingrid has said that the 
impressionistic film, in which her father is depicted only as a giant, 
pillowy tummy, is an inappropriate tribute for his centennial: remarks that 
were reported around the world, calling attention to a tiny film that might 
otherwise have been ignored.

Ghetta

>From: David Meury <dmeury at yahoo.com>
>
>Anyway, there was a movie on cable yesterday I had not seen before and, 
>well, it reminded me of _Gravity's Rainbow_.  It's called "The Saddest 
>Music in the World" with Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, and Maria de 
>Medeiros.  Directed by Guy Maddin.  Anyone seen it?
>
>Surreal, though somewhat tedious.  You have to have a taste for it, but 
>given the inclinations of this group, I'm sure some of you would find it 
>intriguing.
>Thought I'd pass it along.

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