RUMOURS

The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.

Written and directed by three beloved cult Canadian experimentalists and starring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander among others this film is in a style all its own, thoroughly comedic, “bizarre, brilliant and hilariously pin-sharp” (Telegraph)

The massed foibles and outright idiocies of the seven principals — all sharp individual comic creations, but collectively a devastating hot-air hydra of enfeebled contemporary democracy — add up to a frustrated protest against our elected elite fiddling while Rome (or the planet, rather) burns, offering mealy-mouthed sentiments that gesture toward coordinated action without ever getting there. (Variety)