Teaser Trailer for Strange Political Comedy ‘Rumours’ from Guy Maddin
by Alex Billington
August 28, 2024
Source: YouTube
“The giant brain!!” Bleecker Street has revealed the first teaser trailer for Rumours, an extra funky dark comedy about politics from the filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson. This oriignally premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year to mostly mixed to negative reviews, as it burns out pretty quickly after a hilarious start. In times of global crisis, the brightest and biggest brains of the free world gather to provide leadership. The “wildly entertaining” Rumours film is an apocalyptic horror-comedy about how dumb politicians really are. The leaders of seven wealthy democracies come together during a G7 summit in Germany. But they end up getting lost in the woods when everyone else suddenly disappears and they can’t where to go, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out. The ensemble cast of politicians features Cate Blanchett (Germany), Roy Dupuis (Canada), Nikki Amuka-Bird (UK), Charles Dance (USA), Takehiro Hira (Japan), Denis Ménochet (France), Rolando Ravello (Italy), + Zlatko Buric and Alicia Vikander. This is a fun, kooky, quick teaser that sets the tone. Not much footage to see just yet.
Here’s the first teaser trailer for Maddin & Johnson & Johnson’s Rumours, direct from YouTube:
Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies meeting up at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander, these so-called “leaders” become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone. A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude, the latest film from incomparable directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson is a journey into the absurd heart of power and institutional failure in a slowly burning world. Rumours is written and directed by the filmmakers Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson. Produced by Liz Jarvis, Philipp Kreuzer, Lars Knudsen. This initially premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Bleecker Street will debut Rumours in select US theaters starting on October 18th, 2024 this fall. Look like a good time?
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