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Guy Maddin returns in triumphant fashion with a film that manages to be both a departure for the director and completely in keeping with his singular style of offbeat humor.
Rumours imagines a meeting of world leaders who gather to address a looming global crisis but instead get lost in the woods and spend most of the film wandering aimlessly through a spooky German forest inhabited by a giant glowing brain. Starring Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), Roy Dupuis (La Femme Nikita), and Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Rumours is a twisted satire on the ineffectiveness of world leaders and the overstuffed summits that bring them together. Codirected by brothers and frequent Maddin collaborators Evan and Galen Johnson.
A regular visitor to the Wexner Center, Maddin was the recipient of a 2008–09 Wexner Center Artist Residency Award in support of his film Keyhole. He joins us for the screening and will participate in a Q&A afterward. (104 mins., DCP)
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle
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