It’ll take a while to pick those brains.
PICTURE THE SCENE: a group of people get lost in the woods, with no phone signal. Some strange goings-on start, well, going on. It’s a set-up we’ve seen before —but never has that group consisted of prime ministers and Presidents.
Rumours, directed by Guy Maddin and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson, is here to change that. Starring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Charles Dance, it depicts the annual G7 summit, with the septet of leaders meeting to write a joint statement about an unexplained ‘crisis’. That is, until everyone around them quietly vanishes, and they’re left to fend for themselves in a forest filled with surreal discoveries. “Once we said, ‘Okay, G7 summit. That’s the movie,’ almost anything we suggested was immediately funny,” Evan says of the film’s inception. “They’re just awful, funny people, and it’s fun to…” Galen jumps in: “Put them in genre scenarios.”