Directed by Guy Maddin | 100 mins | 2003
Isabella Rossellini is pure pomp and pageantry here as a Depression-era beer baronness—and double amputee—whose glass legs are filled with her own brew. Add to the concoction a sex-crazed amnesiac (Maria de Medeiros), a Broadway has-been (Mark McKinney), multiple convoluted trysts and a lucrative contest to crown the film’s titular superlative and you have something close to an archetypal Guy Maddin entry. A febrile, fuzzed-out ode to a bygone cinema based—extremely loosely—on a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro.