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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Man Maddin’s ‘Rumours’ a bizarre, wacky, laugh-out-loud Canadian satire – Nationwide

There’s one thing so distinctive concerning the dry, wry Canadian sense of humour — and Man Maddin‘s newest film, Rumours, captures it completely.

Set throughout a fictional G7 summit, Rumours sees political leaders from Canada, the US, the UK, Germany, Italy, Japan and France bumble alongside as they try and draft an announcement on an unspecified world disaster. When a catastrophic pressure from 1000’s of years in the past rises to threaten humanity, it additionally forces the seven rich politicians into the woods to fend for themselves.

Co-directed by Maddin, Galen Johnson and Evan Johnson (who additionally wrote the screenplay), Rumours takes its viewers on an absurd, witty and melodramatic journey.

Like all of Maddin’s earlier works, the movie finds a exact stability between campy comedy and dramatic commentary.


Roy Dupuis and Alicia Vikander in ‘Rumours.’.


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Oscar winner Cate Blanchett leads the film’s ensemble forged with an distinctive efficiency because the fictional chancellor of Germany, Hilda Orlmann. Naturally, British actor Charles Dance is the toughened American president, full with an English accent.

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To his credit score, Canadian actor Roy Dupuis is a real scene-stealer in Rumours, portraying a passionate, dramatic — and infrequently weepy — prime minister. Alongside Blanchett and the remainder of the ensemble forged, Dupuis has viewers hanging off his each phrase, proper up till the movie’s fiery conclusion.


Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, Nikki Amuka-Chicken, Charles Dance, Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, and Takehiro Hira in ‘Rumours.’.


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World Information’ Sarah Do Couto sat down with the administrators and Dupuis on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant to speak about actual camp comedy, haunting desires and what it means to be dangerous at one’s job.

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(You may watch the total interview with Man Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Roy Dupuis, high.)

‘Rumours’ is now taking part in in theatres throughout Canada. 


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