The Saddest Music in the World (2003, Canadian)

Of the Guy Maddin films I've seen, Saddest Music is probably the most lighthearted, despite a preponderance of sexual infidelity, premature funerals, drunken amputation, and, well, sad music. It will also afford Kids in the Hall fans an opportunity to see a VERY different side of Mark McKinney, who is (surprisingly) perfectly cast as a glib Americanized showman. Isabella Rossellini is clearly having a fantastic time with her role - Lady Helen Port-Huntley, the legless beer baroness who challenges the musicians of the world to come up with the titular saddest music. It's hard to label any of Maddin's films as being particularly "accessible," but perhaps Saddest Music, with its cast of somewhat recognizable indie actors and reasonably linear plot, comes close.