The Saddest Music in the World

[Paul Mackin]

On May 8, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

>
> 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:

Oddly the piece doesn't mention by name the film that Rossellini and  
Bergman were making during their celebrated liaison. For a time  
"Stomboli"  was as famous as "Open City" though not too many people  
got to see it.  An article of clothing was even named for it--the  
Stromboli Stroller.


>
> 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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