Year
2024
Length
1h58m
Language
English
Rumours
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, GALEN JOHNSON
The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.
Followed by a discussion with Roy Dupuis.
Director
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, GALEN JOHNSON
Cast
Roy Dupuis, Cate Blanchett
Director of photography
Stefan Ciupek
Composer
KRISTIAN EIDNES ANDERSEN
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Country
Canada, Germany
Type
Feature film
Category
Fiction
Subtitle
French
20 August 18:30 to 20:28
Théâtre de Lac-Brome
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin has directed thirteen feature-length movies in a career spanning over thirty years. For the past decade, he has worked exclusively in directorial partnership with Evan and Galen Johnson, creating THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (2015), THE GREEN FOG (2017), and the internet interactive SEANCES (2016). During his solo helming years, Maddin mounted around the world over seventy performances of his films, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE (2002), BRAND UPON THE BRAIN (2006), and MY WINNIPEG (2007) in productions featuring live elements – orchestra, sound effects, song and narration. His screenplay and film-story collaborators include Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and poet John Ashbery. In America, his movies ARCHANGEL (1990) & THE HEART OF THE WORLD (2000) won National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Experimental Film.
Evan Johnson
Evan Johnson is a writer and filmmaker living in Winnipeg. He studied film and philosophy at the University of Manitoba and worked at Winnipeg's Rug Doctor chemical bottling plant before being discovered there by Guy Maddin. He co-directed his first feature, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (2015), with Maddin, and since then has been writing/directing with Maddin and his brother Galen Johnson.
GALEN JOHNSON
Galen Johnson is a filmmaker and designer based in Winnipeg, Canada. In 2012, he worked as Production Designer, Title Designer, and Composer on THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for production design/art direction. He has since gone on to co-direct BRING ME THE HEAD OF TIM HORTON (2015), the experimental short film website SEANCES (2016), THE GREEN FOG (2017), ACCIDENCE (2017), and STUMP THE GUESSER (2020) all with Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson.