Universal Language” — 3.5 stars It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long ...

It is, Rankin said, the greatest producer of Christmas movies in the world. “I think something like 3,000 Hallmark movies are ...

Home becomes increasingly unfamiliar and surreal in Universal Language, as Rankin's character rediscovers Winnipeg amid ...

It's not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto ...

Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...

Director Matthew Rankin ’s odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history — and featuring the coziest ...

Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely ...

There’s not one word in English, not even “Do you speak English?” Filmmaker Matthew Rankin is a Canadian history scholar who switched tracks from academia to art. Maybe there’s something ...

We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and ...

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the ...

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.