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The Saddest Music in the World The Saddest Music in the World The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin, budgeted at $3.8-million (a large budget relative to the average Canadian film) and shot over 24 days. The film was Maddin's first collaboration with Isabella Rossellini, who subsequently appeared in a number of Maddin's films, and co-created a film with him about her father Roberto Rossellini. Maddin and co-writer George Toles based the film on an original screenplay written by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, from which they kept "the title, the premise and the contest – to determine