Blu-ray Review - Rumours
June 15, 2025
Experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin has spent his career creating peculiar movies for art-house audiences. He's in love with the dreamlike possibilities of cinema, maintaining a sense of humor and bold visuals to bring his creations to life. He's been away from screens for quite some time (2017's "The Green Fog" was his last project), and he returns with perhaps his most accessible undertaking yet in "Rumours," examining the strangeness of an apocalyptic event occurring during the G7 gathering of world leaders. Maddin doesn't come alone, joined by collaborators Evan and Galen Johnson, and the trio is out to craft a disorienting journey into ego, power, and panic with the effort, which also aims to be a comedy, at least for the most part. "Rumours" is a little bit of everything, and while it does get a tad fatigued, it remains a periodically hilarious and fantastically performed offering of oddity from a helmer who just loves the stuff. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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