Rumours (2024)
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Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin Run Time: 109 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance
Country: Canada, Germany, United States
Language: English, French, Swedish, German
About the film:
World Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours (2024) 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 satire that is as whip-smart and timely as it is unabashedly silly”
—Devika Girish for Film Comment
About the filmmakers:
Rumours (2024) is the latest feature from the experimentalist trio of Guy Maddin and Galen and Evan Johnson. Since completing his first film in 1985, Guy Maddin has become one of Canada’s most well-known and celebrated filmmakers. A number of Maddin’s recent films began as, or developed from, installation art projects. With Maddin, Galen and Evan Johnson co-directed The Forbidden Room (2015), which was the winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award at the 2015 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards.
Their most recent feature, The Green Fog (2017), is an interpretation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo (1958), pieced together using footage from old films and television shows shot in and around the San Francisco area. They’ve also collaborated on several short films.
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