Rumours (15)

Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance are among the G7 members lost in an apocalyptic forest, in this hilariously pin-sharp comedy.

Hosted by German Chancellor Hilda Ortmann (Blanchett), world leaders representing Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US (Dance) gather for a summit on a palatial estate.

Their lakeside G7 dinner is thrown into crisis when they realise that their phones don’t work; the chateau HQ and probably the whole town has been abandoned and they are now utterly alone – except for the 2,000-year-old humans discovered embalmed in the mud which have now come back to life, stumbling around the place and frantically masturbating so that the resulting tsunami of seed will both extinguish the catastrophic fires and engender an enlightened new people.

There are some memorably daft set-pieces, like the discovery of “a brain the size of a hatchback”, Alicia Vikander babbling prophecies in Swedish and an AI system designed to detect child predators unexpectedly coming in handy. And although this film feels like a cackle in the face of humanity’s demise, there’s still an earnest frustration at its core towards our real political leaders’ march towards oblivion.