My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Directed by Guy Maddin
Rossellini wrote this tribute to her father, Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini, as a boldly frank mélange of anecdotes and personal memories. The subject is portrayed by a giant belly as a personification of his large, comforting presence in her life. All of the other characters are played by Rossellini: David O. Selznick, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, and most arrestingly, Ingrid Bergman. A tour-de-force of emotion and ideas, film philosophy, and familial memories. 2005, Canada, BW, 35mm, 16 minutes.
Preceding
The Saddest Music in the World
Directed by Guy Maddin
“You have never seen a film like this before.”—Roger Ebert
Based on a screenplay by Kasuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day), this film centers on a Winnipeg beer company contest to definitively determine what its title suggests. “Isabella Rossellini’s character . . . a brewery heiress double amputee, tottering on glass legs filled with beer, might well be the Guy Maddin poster girl—being as she is a (barely) walking metaphor for his comedy of tragedy/tragedy of comedy” (Newsday). 2003, Canada, BW/Color, 35mm, 99 minutes.
