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‘Rumours’ Review: Cate Blanchett Gets Lost in Heavy Fog and Hot Air in a Laugh-Out-Loud Political Satire
Cate Blanchett stars in 'Rumours,' a wicked takedown of ineffective global leaders from Canadian trio Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson.
For the purposes of a rather distasteful photo op, the German contingent has exhumed an Iron Age corpse (eerily preserved in fleshy, moist condition) from the rolling grounds, but this one archaeological gesture appears to have triggered an uprising of fluid-seeping ancient bodies, chasing the politicians into the surrounding forest when their servants mysteriously vanish. Canada’s buff, manbun-sporting prime minister Maxime Laplace (Roy Dupuis) edges toward a nervous breakdown over a numbingly dull “carried interest scandal” at home, not to mention an extinguished romantic liaison with his U.K. counterpart Cardosa Dewindt (Nikki Amuka-Bird), who keeps insisting they can complete their statement while they claw their way out of the woods. French president Sylvain Broulez (Denis Ménochet) is more preoccupied with writing a “psychogeography of graveyards and burial customs,” Italy’s gormless premier Antonio Lamorte (a pricelessly addled Rolando Ravello) forgot to bring his phone, while venerable POTUS Edison Wolcott (Charles Dance) can’t seem to stay awake — or explain why he speaks with a cut-glass English accent.
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