The Winnipeg auteur's new dark political comedy “Rumours” may be his most accessible work yet.
Actors Roy Dupuis, left, and Alicia Vikander are seen in an undated production still image handout from the film "Rumours." . Guy Maddin has built a career helming bewildering, dreamlike, avant-garde films, but the Winnipeg auteur’s new dark political comedy “Rumours” may be his most accessible work yet.
“Do they do with the Oscars what they do with the Stanley Cup here in Canada? You go to your hometown and you drink out of them?”Helping their cause is the fact it’s produced by indie horror darling Ari Aster of “Midsommar” and “Hereditary” fame and stars two Academy Award winners in Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander, making it the most star-studded cast Maddin’s ever assembled.
“ needed to be set in the present. It needed to be shot in colour. The G7 is as real as you and I, and so it needed to be shot in focus to suggest that they’re really there and aren’t the figment of some glaucoma sufferer’s imaginative ravings,” Maddin says. “There’s a way that Winnipeg seems like it’s out-of-the-way. One thing I like about it is it feels far away from all the things that are happening,” says Evan.
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