Canadian filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson speak satirical truth to power in this subversive horror comedy.
How to watch Rumours in Australia
Rumours is screening in Australian cinemas from December 5, 2024.
Rumours (2024)
What is Rumours about?
A politcally-charged riff on ’80s teen horror—sort of—Rumours sees the leaders of the nominally free world, gathered together for the G7 Summit, trying to draft a statement on some manner of vague world crisis (to be fair, there are many to choose from). When a stray guest of wind sends their draft spinning out the window and into the nearby woods, the good and the great head out en masse to retrieve it. And then the fog closes in. And then the bog men start attacking.
There’s definitely a touch of Luis Buñuel to this set up—think The Exterminating Angel and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie—plus a liberal dash of Maddin’s own archly surreal voice, so we’re pretty keen for it.
The cast of Rumours
Big cast on this one, with Cate Blanchett as Hilda Ortmann, the Chancellor of Germany; Charles Dance as Edison Wolcott, the President of the United States; Roy Dupuis as Maxime Laplace, the Prime Minister of Canada; Denis Ménochet as Sylvain Broulez, the President of France; Nikki Amuka-Bird as Cardosa Dewindt, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Rolando Ravello as Antonio Lamorte, the Prime Minister of Italy; Takehiro Hira as Tatsuro Iwasaki, the Prime Minister of Japan; Zlatko Burić as Jonas Glob, the President of the European Commission; and Alicia Vikander as Celestine Sproul, the Secretary-General of the European Commission. Plus a big, weird, pulsing brain, and a bunch of zombie bog-men.
Rumours trailer
Why we’re excited about Rumours
Whether you’re here for the art house political satire, the cheerfully surreal touches, or just to watch world leaders get murderlised in fun and novel ways, this seems like a winner to us.
