I love RUMOURS, it’s a hodgepodge of mystery, thriller, horror, and soap opera and it works! Splendidly I might add. Largely because of the cast, but also the script and direction by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson.
It’s best for you to enter the theater with no knowledge of what the film is about but the short summary of it is a group of G7 world leaders headed by the Chancellor of Germany Hilda Ortmann, played by Cate Blanchett. Amidst a global crisis, our fearless leaders find themselves lost in the woods haunted by undead bog bodies and a giant brain. Not to add some soap opera tortured passions amongst some of them.
RUMOURS is being released in theaters on October 18.
I spent some time with Maddin and the Johnsons to talk about the making of the film, did they base some of the characters on real life, and what they hoped for viewers to get after watching the film. Hint: You’ll be entertained!
In the film RUMOURS, Roy Dupuis plays the dashing and womanizing Maxime Laplace, the Prime Minister of Canada, Nikki Amuka-Bird is Cardosa Dewindt, the cautious Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Rolando Ravello is Antonio Lamorte, the Prime Minister of Italy who loves meat.
I sat down with the actors to talk about the film, their characters, and the target of the satire.
