Experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin has always moved to the beat of his own surreal drum with films such as Archangel, The Saddest Music in the World, and My Winnipeg. For his last couple of features, Maddin has teamed up with brothers Galen and Evan Johnson for some truly weird shit like The Green Frog and The Forbidden Room. Now the trio are back with Rumours, a wild apocalyptic comedy-horror starring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and more that has been the talk of the festival circuit since premiering at Cannes in May.
The film takes place at the G7 Summit where the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies have met to issue an important statement on a global crisis. Hilarity and chaos ensue. Trust me, this isn’t going to be some boring shit you’d watch on C-SPAN.
SYNOPSIS: Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone. A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude, the latest film from incomparable directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson is a journey into the absurd heart of power and institutional failure in a slowly burning world.
Joining Blanchett and Vikander in the ensemble are Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, and Zlatko Burić.
Bleecker Street will release Rumours in theaters on October 18th.
