There’s loads to consider within the teaser trailer for Rumours, which options Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and, for causes that aren’t instantly clear, an outsized mind.

Bleecker Avenue releases filmmaker Man Maddin’s politically themed horror-comedy film in theaters Oct. 18, simply forward of this November’s presidential election. The movie premiered earlier this yr on the Cannes Movie Competition and co-stars Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Hen, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello and Zlatko Buric.

Rumours facilities on the leaders of the seven nations comprising the G7, who meet for his or her annual summit however get misplaced within the woods and should nonetheless draft a press release addressing a worldwide disaster.

The movie’s first launched footage doesn’t reveal a lot concerning the plot however does tease the phobia that lurks within the misty woods because the politicians assess their state of affairs. At one level, a personality succinctly exclaims, “A large mind!”

Maddin wrote and directed the function with longtime collaborators Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson. Producing the movie are Liz Jarvis, Philipp Kreuzer and Lars Knudsen, whereas Blanchett and Ari Aster function government producers.

In her evaluation for The Hollywood Reporter, movie critic Leslie Felperin wrote, “Rumours operates on a surrealist aircraft of its personal, making up the principles of its universe because it goes alongside.”

Felperin continued, “The entire thing typically seems like a skit present that simply barely holds collectively till the filmmakers and solid carry all of it house for a terrific climactic closure, by which all of the buzzwords and banalities get to be rolled up into one triumphant speech shouted into the void because the world burns.”