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It's been a long time since Cate Blanchett was funny. She's played unsympathetic, dark, weird characters, but she's been gone since 2002's Heaven, in which German director Tom Tykwer had her shave her head and blow up Italian police. But Cate Blanchett is also one of those rare actresses in world cinema who is so talented and popular that she can do whatever she wants, so obviously she couldn't pass up the chance to work with mega weirdo Guy Maddin. Maddin, the notorious "enfant terrible" of Canadian cinema who co-directed Rumours with brothers Evan and Galen Johnson, who wrote the screenplay, will finally give Ms. Blanchett a worldwide distribution for its weirdness. If that means Rumours was a good movie.
Ms. Blanchett plays Hilda, the German chancellor not based on Angela Merkel, hosting a G7 meeting in a country mansion where archaeologists have recently found a number of remains of the Marsh People. Other participants in the meeting are the US president (Charles Dance, with a distinctive accent, but why?), the Japanese prime minister (Taira Takehiro), the Italian prime minister (Rolando Ravello), and the French prime minister (Denis Ménochet). There is also Maxime (Roy Dupuy), the Canadian prime minister not based on Justin Trudeau, and British Prime Minister Cardoza (Nicky Amuka-Bird), who is a fantasy character as a capable black woman who has risen to power. level. The film is available on the Afdah tv website.