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Guy Maddin’s “Rumours” premieres in Winnipeg [Video]

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From the beaches of Cannes to the bustling streets of New York City, a new film by a trio of Manitoba directors has toured the international film festival circuit to much pomp and circumstance.

Now, the black comedy “Rumours” directed by Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson, and Evan Johnson, is set to premiere on the collaborators’ home soil.

“It just feels too good to be true,” Maddin said of the film’s whirlwind success in an interview Tuesday with CTV Morning Live Winnipeg.

Starring Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander and Ontario’s own Roy Dupuis, “Rumours” follows seven world leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit. Disaster ensues when they get lost in the woods while trying to draft a statement on a global crisis, facing increasing peril in the process. 

The film held its first screening in Winnipeg Wednesday ahead of a wider release later this …

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