Film
Guy Maddin Double Bill: Careful + Saddest Music In The World
Prince Charles Cinema

3/10/2010
7 Leicester Place WC2H 7BY
020.7494.3654
Tube: Leicester Sq./Piccadilly Circus



£11 (double bill) £7 (concesions)
£6.50 (one film) £4 (concessions)

Careful: 6pm
The Saddest Music In The World: 8pm
This is a treat for fans of truly eclectic cinema. The rarely screened Careful (1992) is fortuitously timed to rejuvenate those who, after the end of the Winter Olympics, are pining for a further dose of shenanigans in snowy Canadian mountains. One of Guy Maddin's earliest features, it established his ultra-disctinctive visual style of tinted, flickering, faux-German Expressionism. A homage to the "Mountain Films" of the 1920s, the film tells the story of a quiet mountain village, existing in perpetual danger of a catastrophic avalanche. This threat permeates every aspect of the villager's lives, forcing them to tiptoe and whisper. This oasis of calm and silence is, of course, only the surface covering to a seething underbelly of bonkers depravity -- suicide, incestuous dreams and a cruel headmistress at the School for Butlers. Paired with Maddin's best-known film, The Saddest Music In The World (2004), which emulates Depression era "get-rich-quick" contests (a la They Shoot Horses Don't They?), with Isabella Rossellini as a beer baron who, equipped with lager-filled glass legs after losing both her legs in a freak accident, decides to stage an international contest to discover "the saddest music in the world".
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