The not-so-magnificent seven

Guy Maddin serves up political satire with supernatural trimmings, but it doesn’t quite come off

Rumours Dir Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson, Evan Johnson, Canada 2024 On general release from 6 Dec An ever-relevant genre across multiple media, political satire has been working overtime in recent years, so perhaps it is unsurprising that Guy Maddin has joined forces with frequent collaborators Evan and Galen Johnson once more to tell the tale of a G7 summit gone terribly awry. Here, we are introduced to fictionalised versions of a septet of leaders from Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the UK and the USA. After the obligatory posing for group photos, the leaders withdraw to the woods to compose a joint statement on the latest global crisis; but when their wine glasses need refilling and the waiting staff are suddenly nowhere to be found, it slowly begins to dawn…

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