Rumours
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When the leaders of the wealthiest G7 nations meet to draft a response to an unspecified global crisis, they find themselves lost in the misty woods to (ineptly) fend for themselves. In increasingly surreal circumstances, including long-buried bog-bodies and coming across a giant brain nestled in the undergrowth, Rumours is a uncanny journey into the absurdity of political power and the failure of our international institutions, as we're left to laugh at the end of the world.
Following co-directors Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson's magnificent features The Forbidden Room (2015) and The Green Fog (2017), we finally get another delicious slice of their unique cinematic vision.
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“Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance are superb in an off-kilter political farce with folk horror flourishes.”
Time Out
“Sporadically ingenious, occasionally chilling and entirely bonkers, Rumours sees Maddin (writing and directing with his longtime collaborators Evan and Galen Johnson) abandoning his more familiar black-and-white, silent-film aesthetic for vibrant color.”
The New York Times
“Laugh-out-loud political satire.”
Variety
