FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

whpratt1 Had no idea just what I was in for when I purchased this film and all of a sudden I was back in the depression days of the 1920's and 1930's drinking beer by the gallons in Canada. The actors all gave an outstanding performance and one woman had her leg amputated and still managed to make love to any gentleman who so desired. There is a beer baroness who organized a contest to find the saddest music in the world with a contest prize of @25,000 and there were many groups who competed in this crazy contest.Despite the fact that this film is depicting the Depression Days, there is some dark comedy and a musical melodrama by the famous director, Guy Maddin. There is also amnesiac nymphomaniac who is exposed and more hidden dark secrets that beer will never solve in Winnipeg, Canada. Enjoy, if you like this type of film.

Charles Herold (cherold) I find Guy Maddin a frustrating director. His films have an interesting visual style and some amusing ideas, yet I always find myself restless and bored, not because Maddin fails in what he's trying to do but because he succeeds at doing something I find unappealing.Saddest Music has a typical Maddin approach. The movie aims to create something akin to old films of the 20s and 30s. Not brilliant old movies like All Quiet on the Western Front or The Thin Man but bad old movies. This film purposely has inane dialog, hammy acting, jumpy editing and muddled visuals.Why? I suppose it's an art thing. Saddest Music basically plays like a rather pretentious student film that should be about 20 minutes long. At 20 minutes, this might be worth watching, but I cannot for the life of me understand how Maddin's films are successful enough for him to have a career.Still, Maddin makes films for people who like this sort of thing, so I'm not really qualified to judge, any more than I can judge the quality of gay porn or brain pudding. Like Saddest Music, these are things made for someone else entirely.

barnesgene What makes this movie such a wretched experience to sit through is that the director obviously hates music, or at least hates the musicians and music lovers who people the profession. Why else would he keep interrupting perfectly good musical performances with buzzers, inane, insipid voiceovers, and stupid visuals -- and a plot that moves, well, nowhere? If you happen to like music, as I do, and not just think of it as a background part of your life, you're sure to be thoroughly annoyed by this idiotic outing. There ARE good Canadian movies out there, but this isn't one of them. One of the two stars I've given it is for the interesting use of faux disintegrating film black-and-white images throughout (if it were furniture, we'd called it stressed), but that by no means could save this dud.

spamisevil2001 I really liked this film because it explores black and white visual techniques that I hadn't seen before and the plot and character relationships were tight as a Shakespeare tragicomedy and represented through both psychology and physical attributes. Each principal character had a major dependency on the others for their self-image of grieving, loss, and principal character traits. This was realized in every step of the character and plot development. Others who complain that this was supposed to be about music perhaps came with expectations that blinded them from the themes of pride and loss and a very subtle critic about the loss of innocence that the twentieth century experienced from the time of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to continuing American expansionism.