Featuring a starry cast, Rumours is the kind of film where the ability to keep a straight face qualifies as consummate acting.
creator, Canadian director Guy Maddin, has been cultivating his reputation for extreme wackiness since the 1980s. Based in Winnipeg, which he has fondly lampooned in a quasi-biographical mockumentary as the sleepiest town in Canada, and possibly the world, he’s concentrated mainly on short films. Their surrealistic tilts at anything and everything have made him a great favourite on the festival circuit. But the mainstream has eluded him – if he ever felt like plunging into it, which is doubtful.
Except for Isabella Rossellini, who’s joined him as an enthusiastic collaborator, he’s never cast big-name actors – until now., Charles Dance and Alicia Vikander, all of whom have become gleefully infected with the Maddin brand of madness. It’s the kind of film where the ability to keep a straight face qualifies as consummate acting.
The story is set at a G7 conference held at a castle on the edge of a misty German forest looking as if it could house European folklore’s worst nightmares. And it doesn’t take long to prove itself.While the score resonates with intimations of doom, the leaders pose for the media before their unflappable host – BIanchett’s Hilda Ortmann, the German chancellor – declares she has a treat for them.
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