Rumours

Reviews

• "The film is winningly defined by its peculiar admixture of national pride and self-deprecation."
  - Slant Magazine
• "RUMUOURS is a strange brew, but there’s a lot of fun to be had if you like its flavor."
  - Time Out
• "Anyone with a fascination for political process and the idiocies of bureaucracy will find one joke after another hitting the bullseye."
  - Deadline Hollywood Daily
• "An absurd vision of the political apocalypse at a time when real life has never been more absurd. "
  - Inverse
• "Maddin pulls an exceptional trick, crafting characters we care about even while we gleefully root for their demise."
  - RogerEbert.com
• "It’s the funniest flick yet from Canada’s surreal satirist, Guy Maddin, who gets a huge assist from co-directors Evan and Galen Johnson. "
  - Toronto Star
• "The massed foibles and outright idiocies of the seven principals — all sharp individual comic creations, but collectively a devastating hot-air hydra of enfeebled contemporary democracy — add up to a frustrated protest against our elected elite fiddling while Rome (or the planet, rather) burns, offering mealy-mouthed sentiments that gesture toward coordinated action without ever getting there."
  - Variety
• "The premise sounds as though it must invite a satirical reading, and there are many well-aimed ironic jabs at aspects of the leaders’ national character and the box-ticking rigmarole of modern politics. But directors Guy Maddin and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson – three beloved cult Canadian experimentalists – also poke fun at the notion that their intentions could be so clean-cut."
  - The Telegraph