"The Saddest Music in the World" - Isabella Rossellini film retrospective

Kino Rex is having a retrospective "A Summer with Ingrid Berman and Isabella Rossellini" and is showing 19 films dating from 1942 to 2024.

For details see: [https://rexbern.ch/filmreihen/ingrid-bergman-isabella-rossellini](Test)

Meeting time allows us 15 minutes before the film starts to meet up - please be on time so we can get seats together. In English with German subtitles.

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Tonight's movie: The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin and shot over 24 days; the film marks Maddin's first collaboration with actor Isabella Rossellini.

Maddin and co-screenwriter George Toles based the film on an original screenplay written by British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, from which they kept "the title, the premise and the contest – to determine which country’s music was the saddest" but otherwise re-wrote. Like most of Guy Maddin's films, The Saddest Music in the World is filmed in a style that imitates late 1920s and early 1930s cinema, with grainy black-and-white photography, slightly out-of-sync sound and expressionist art design. A few scenes are filmed in colour, in a manner that imitates early two-strip Technicolor.

About the actress, from Wikipedia:
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (1952) is an Italian actress and model. The daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, she is noted for her successful tenure as a Lancôme model and an established career in American and European cinema. She has received nominations for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy Film Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

About the director, from Wikipedia:
Guy Maddin CM OM (born 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, film editor and installation artist. He is known for his fascination with lost Silent-era films and for incorporating their aesthetics into his own work. Maddin was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, in 2012 and began serving as a visiting lecturer at Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies in 2015.