El canadiense Guy Maddin dirige esta película, basada en un guión original de Kazuo Ishiguro. Ocurre en Winnipeg, durante la Gran Depresión y documenta un concurso para encontrar la música más triste del mundo.

Winnipeg’s iconoclastic weirdo conjured his most spectacular film to date with this wild melodrama composed of beer, music, and glass legs. The Saddest Music in the World does the near impossible and entirely lives up to its perfect title by way of a welcome cocktail of the surreal and the sincere.