“Guy Maddin, whose brilliant work has up to now often involved a teasing but respectful appropriation of devices of 1920's cinema, now moves forward a few decades and creates, through a unique collaboration, an homage to a filmmaker who was one of the most influential of the mid-twentieth century: Roberto Rossellini. His collaborator is Rossellini's daughter Isabella, a remarkable film artist in her own right, who sketches a portrait of her father that is at once intimate and moving, and who also incarnates several key figures in his life: Chaplin, Fellini, Hitchcock, Selznick, and her own mother Ingrid Bergman. Guy Maddin has been described as a cross between Jean Cocteau, Luis Buñuel and Orson Welles – all rolled into one childlike man. His extensive and celebrated body of work includes 6 features and no less than 18 short films. In 1995 he was awarded the Telluride Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. “When I met Guy Maddin two years ago for the shooting of The Saddest Music in the World, I knew I wanted to borrow his unique images to illustrate the film I wished to do about my father. In Guy’s films there is a ‘cinema nostalgia’: the black-and-white, fading, dilapidated look of his films fills me with sadness - the same sadness I experience trying to hold on to my parents’ memory”. Isabella Rossellini