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The G7 summit has never looked like this before—but maybe it should. In Rumours, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the U.S. gather for another one of their big meetings, but instead of your typical luxury resort hotel, they find their wine-sipping chit-chat spirals into a night that sees them stranded deep in a forest… a forest populated by “bog bodies” scarier than any terrorist or political protestor. Also, the world might be ending. Also, there’s a giant brain?
Check out the new trailer for pitch-black comedy Rumours, which stars Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and the very British Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) as—just one way you can tell this movie is aiming to pull your leg—the very British President of the United States.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies 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, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, 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.”
In addition to Blanchett (playing the leader of Germany), Dance (the POTUS), and Vikander (the Swedish secretary-general of the European Commission), Rumours‘ cast includes Roy Dupuis (Canada), Denis Ménochet (France), Nikka Amuka-Bird (UK), Rolando Ravello (Italy), and Takehiro Hira (Japan).
Rumours is in theaters October 18.
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