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Rumours’ Goofy Political Satire Has a Giant Glowing Brain
The legendary Canadian director Guy Maddin’s latest, which just premiered at Cannes, has a glorious B-movie sheen.
Cate Blanchett plays the stylish, domineering German chancellor, intent on keeping the group together but also unafraid of a quickie in the woods with the hunky, man-bunned Canadian prime minister (Roy Dupuis), who himself is an indecisive milquetoast still carrying torches for his lost loves. Early on, the German leader invites her colleagues to view a recent archeological find: a perfectly mummified, millennia-old corpse, a “bog man” whose penis has been severed and wrapped around his neck. The speculation is that this was a former leader, “sacrificially murdered for failing to deliver on the promise of a good harvest.” We’ll see more bog men later — hanging from trees, lumbering in the woods, collectively masturbating in animalistic unison.
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