Rumours

Rumours is a strange and unusual film. It's satire and broad comedy. Some works, some doesn't. It's very uneven but there are delights along the way. The film takes place during a G7 conference in Germany. G7 is a group of seven western countries. USA, UK, Italy, Germany, Canada, Japan and France. Here we find the leaders of those countries. They have to draft a statement regarding an unspecified global crisis. It starts well, but soon descends into farce and chaos. A fog descends and the leaders get lost in the woods, with many strange goings on surrounding them. It's quite surreal at times but there is some dark satire and smart political commentary in place. The humour though doesn't always stick, despite a fine cast headed by Cate Blanchett. A muted pleasure.

Rotten. Absolute rubbish

Critics take themselves way too seriously. If I don't laugh, it ain't funny. I was cracking up at the end. Years from now RUMOURS will be a cult classic and the audience will bring foil emergency blankets and one or two culprits will be dressed as giant brains. The political dings here are framed within a well-polished mirror of our times. Satire, folks. Remember that?

Such a movie was an opportunity to make some serious political comments about the actual proximity of WW3 between warring capitalist nations, and yet the scriptwriters chose to write primarily nonsensical rubbish. The film industry has almost completed its transformation into a swamp of political cowards.

I don't mind the obscure, puzzling or strange but this is just odd. It's not worth time and effort to decipher it.

Tedious dialogue, pompous ‘message’ that you grasp in the first 2 minutes. Then you get to listen to the dull conversation of the protagonists for 40 minutes while you wait for anything at all to happen. What does finally happen is uninteresting and again-we get it. We don’t have to sit through this masturbatory-haha joke from the movie-nonsense. It’s like The Exterminating Angel without the laughs.

I was lucky enough to see this in a packed theater at the Ebertfest with Guy Maddin there, and this film was a blast. It was absolutely hilarious, and the audience was breaking out in laughter the whole film. It features Maddin's best set of characters yet, with all of them being equally interesting. This picture also has a fine balance of humor and Maddin's signature poetic ideas and dialogue. Visually, this film was stunning. Maddin's use of color was amazing, and it features some of Maddin's best surrealist imagery yet. It was interesting seeing Maddin also finally depart from his imitation silent film style. I absolutely loved Rumours, and it's easily the best film of last year.

Entiendo la sátira, lo estereotipados que están los personajes, se puede deducir con cierta facilidad en quienes están basados y el mensaje que se quiere dar, pero es que no conecte con ella en ningún momento, el elenco es MUY bueno, pero el ritmo lento para construir un climax que nunca termina de llegar y el final anticlimático que explica vagamente lo que esta pasando son un bajón claro en una película que pudo haber dado mucho más.

An underrated movie that is a hidden gem. The hidden messages about our political climate and a foreshadowing of what’s to come. With all that, it’s funny, gloomy, dramatic, and charming.

It's art. It's not really genre fiction. Being art, there is a point being made which may or may not stand the test of time. There are some goodish points made via satire, but it lacks the brilliance of, say, Pope or Swift, but kudos for the attempt.