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‘Was I cast because you couldn’t get anyone else?’ Cate Blanchett discusses Rumours

Blanchett and director Guy Maddin attempt to explain their supremely odd new film about the G7

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Cate Blanchett slips into the role of German chancellor Hilda Ortmann as comfortably as all those other powerful women she has portrayed © Bleecker street media / landmark media / alamy stock photo
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 14 December 2024
issue 14 December 2024

At last, a film about the G7. There have been more movies than you can shake a stick at set in the Oval Office and No. 10 and other citadels. But not once has cinema gathered democracy’s prime septet in the same frame, the way the annual Group of Seven summit does.

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