Rumours
Rumours
Rumours: The past few years especially in this young decade have seen a number of satirical comedies emerging and rising up the ranks at significant movie festivals, such as Parasite, Triangle of Sadness, The Menu and so on.
The most recent film by the experimentalist trio Guy Maddin and Galen and Evan Johnson, Rumours, is a stereotypical high concept film that comes under the generic definition of being politically charged or politically relevant by virtue of its plot but is just so outrageous and so endearing, consistently straying in surprise from the beginning to the end.
In Rumours, there is an imagined huddle of the most powerful heads of states as is depicted at the G7 summit, where they come together to prepare a draft position on a pending environmental issue of no name. Not too long after their first meeting, the teams exhibit the sudden rush stylized in a pool of panic, the rid of dead-weight brainstorming and the highs of the writing stage rush, and try too hard to ignore the two writing processes.
All niceties and in fact, any iota of professional government behavior is abandoned when the human aspects of these heads of state need to shift from the concern for family image to being within a rather serene, albeit non passive place which unfortunately turns tempestuous, all residing within a forest. This concept of a maladroit climate policy meeting turned hostage by the very thing these self-absorbed statesmen are trying to avoid is a smart core concept, well done in this movie.
One of the strongest sides of Rumours is the constant and objective participation in the plot development, bearing in mind that it is not just a business man who feels its overestep as a warthog.
The core premise itself is absurd, and whilst there are both political and strange aspects, the filmmakers are quite aware of this and celebrate it accordingly. There are no such concerns for Rumours when it comes to sober discussion or such specific political criticism; instead, there is an unrestrained mockery of the absurdity inherent in it. It doesn’t explicitly reject such a way of pursuing politics through the artistic medium of realism, but it definitely does not care about it in the least.
In any case, the film indulges in this catharsis which is also political in nature, coolly deflating these painfully non functional, moronic political figures’ egos in its unmistakably comedic moments. Bringing down Rumours’ level of specificity and accentuating that of general incompetence and absurdity creates in her a very successfully humorous thing which provides her entire cast with a lot of proverbial meat to chew on.
This film swims as a result of a wonderful ensemble among which Canadian Roy Dupuis as the Canadian prime minister Maxime Laplace and Cate Blanchett who plays German leader Hilda Ortmann is the outstanding one. There are many other big names in the ensemble too, such as Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance. Although there is star power as it came before, this is an ensemble movie like never before.
I think that what helps Rumours to remain so entertaining is the fact that it has big and over-the-top actors who are comfortable doing smaller and funnier bits and the entire cast is ready to go crazy and believe in every bit of it. Johnston says in explanation of why the film is fun that it is so because everybody is enjoying it.
Through leading surrealism and experimental cinema denizens there are three co-directors who make this film combines tonal aspect so well. Initiating and concluding the focus of the film makes it less of a chore, quite the opposite from what is presumed. Their passive aggression toward the whole political agenda has already been discussed, yet the way the Maddin and Johnston use the location or the context in the plot, and the visual art is quite extraordinary.
For that much be-leagued environment eventually coalesces into sheer physical, grotesque challenges and dangers to the ensemble of political imaginary zompure race, geriatrics and a few of the ex-masturbations, a rooted giant brain with its own consciousness and so many other brilliant practical gags which I won’t mention because it’s more fun when you see them in the movie when you’re not expecting it.
These elemental forces make it hard for our politicians, although for the audience it seems to be never that threatening, an assured creative decision to emphasize the innate egoistic hubris and complete inabilities of these hysterical unscrupulous politicians as the very sources of their misfortunes.
The ecological aspect of the tale is also quite typical for many abundantly direct comic references and comparable stories to the melodrama that is taking place.
Yet as it comes to that in Winding down Rumours at point of time frustration comes when the narrative is episodic in nature although some would say it takes the film a little bit out of course, and although there are no gripes to be made regarding pacing or overall structure, some concerns would resound with respect to the copiousness of the humor of this motion picture.
This fearless, unreserved desire to connect ordinary people with extraordinary and silly situations gives the sign of a runtime filled with tremendously funny slapstick that spans the whole width of the genre and so entertaining that it will be extremely well received by the audience.
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- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Country: United States
- Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
- Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rolando Ravello, Charles Dance
