Cate Blanchett On Political G7 Satire ‘Rumours’: “It’s Not Trying To Be An Important Film With A Message” – Cannes

A glowing brain, world leaders lost in the woods, a U.S President with a glaring British accent, oh, and bog men — mummies whose manhood has been severed and wrapped around their neck. Such are the sundries of Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson’s Rumours political comedy here at Cannes.

The film, which will get a stateside release from Bleecker Street, follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

Said 2x Oscar winner Cate Blanchett who stars in the movie, “I think if you try to make sense of this movie, you’ll feel like you’re losing your mind.”

“It’s not trying to be an important film with a message,” said the actress who was piqued to work on the project because it had three directors, plus she was a fan of Maddin’s canon.

Maddin and his collaborators adored the idea of the G7 given the secrecy and reports which surrounds the kabuki-like theater world leader sit-down. Blanchett billed Rumours as “documentary-esque” in lifting a curtain on the G7. And the British-accented POTUS played by Charles Dance –that was all intentional per Maddin, et al.

Another inspiration conceit per Maddin: “What if the revolutionary war went another way? What if (America) just stayed a colony?”.

Evan Johnson was asked about a Rumours franchise. Joking, he said, “Yes, it’s true, it’s called Tumors“.