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In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

A stellar cast play leaders of G7 countries facing an existential crisis in Rumours, a smart film about communication, diplomatic nonsense and not coping, says Simon Ings

By Simon Ings

6 November 2024

Rumours (2024) still

In Rumours, world leaders tackle a crisis as only they know how

Bleecker Street


Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
On show in the US; on general release in the UK from 6 December

Leaders of the G7 nations gather on an estate outside the German village of Dankerode in Saxony-Anhalt to thrash out a joint communiqué on an unspecified (but clearly terminal) global crisis.

They used to be the G6 but then Canada joined. No one’s too sure about Canada. Its prime minister, Maxime Laplace (Roy Dupuis), keeps having to run off for a good cry. Cate…

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