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‘Rumours’ Review: Guy Maddin’s Smart, Sharp & Quirky Satire Hits The Bullseye For Those Who Have The Giant Brain For It – Cannes Film Festival


Rumours starring Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander is a more explicitly satirical work that we have come to expect from Canadian director Guy Maddin.

Tramping through a wooded estate somewhere in Germany, pursued by the zombie remains of Iron Age chieftains recently exhumed from the grounds of the nearby stately home, the leaders of the world’s richest democracies recite it by heart. Smart, sharp and quirky, Rumours is a more explicitly satirical work that we have come to expect from Canadian director Maddin, the outlier indie who has single-handedly put Winnipeg on the cinematic map. Hilde, the German chancellor, is trying to maintain her position as official hostess, but it is the Canadian PM Maxime who becomes scout leader, prodding a giant brain when nobody else dares and volunteering to swim across a river to retrieve a raft that may take them to safety, presumably stirred by a trace memory of forging into the frontier.

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