During a G7 summit, world leaders are hard at work trying to draft a joint statement on the latest global crisis. Such is the intensity of their toil that they fail to notice signs of a potential apocalypse heading their way. Suddenly, alone in the woods, they must scramble to save humanity or, at the very minimum, themselves.

This sci-fi pulp satire finds Canadian trickster extraordinaire Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg) and fellow Manitoban co-directors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson in a particularly wacky mood, corralling an outstanding, starry cast—including Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Denis Ménochet, Charles Dance, and Nikki Amuka-Bird.

With side-splitting gags, Rumours assures us that there is laughter at the end of the world.