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How Did Cate Blanchett Wind Up in the Year’s Funniest Movie?
With her starring role in Guy Maddin’s Rumours, she’s made one of her strangest and most perverse pictures to date.
With her starring role in Rumours, directed by Canadian filmmaking legend Guy Maddin and his regular collaborators Galen and Evan Johnson, she’s made one of her strangest and funniest pictures to date. Though full of wild humor, the movie does build to something deeper: a despairing portrait of our political leaders’ inability to deal with the world’s existential crises. I mean, they are excruciatingly awkward, and these people are so far away from anything that resembles reality, it’s a parody in and of itself — they go through all these cultural moments and when they talk, you can see that they’ve been coached in gestural language that is powerful but non-threatening.
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