COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE

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2°Guy Maddin’s : The sAddesT Music in The World
The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin.
The movie plays during the Great depression in 1933 in Winnipeg, Canada, an old
fortune teller is predicting the future for Chester Kent, a failing Broadway producer,
and his nymphomaniac amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa. The fortune teller predicts
doom, but Chester laughs it off, and rides a train into Winnipeg. The baroness
Helen, Lady Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) announces a competition to find the
saddest music in the world; she hopes that the competition will raise the sales of
her beer, especially since Prohibition is about to end. Chester decides to enter the
contest representing America. It emerges that Lady Port-Huntley, who has no legs.
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Director: Guy Maddin
Cast: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros
Canada 2003
1°Lars von Trier’s : dogville
Dogville is a 2003 drama written and directed by Lars von Trier. Dogville is a very
small American town by an abandoned silver mine in the Rocky Mountains with a
road leading up to it and nowhere else to go but the mountains. The film begins
with a prologue in which we meet a dozen or so of the fifteen citizens. They are
portrayed as lovable, good people with small flaws which are easy to forgive.
The town is seen from the point of view of Tom Edison Jr. (Paul Bettany), an aspiring
writer who procrastinates by trying to get his fellow citizens together for regular
meetings on the subject of “moral rearmament.” It is clear that Tom wants to succeed
his aging father (Philip Baker Hall), a physician, as the moral and spiritual
leader of the town.
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Director: Lars von Trier.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Chloë Sevigny
Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, France
2003