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

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

Rankin County deputies regularly entered homes without warrants, beat people to get information and illegally seized evidence, a fromer deputy said..

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

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

Imagine a land between Tehran and Winnipeg. Now go find yourself. Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language” takes place in this unnamed land between the two cities and somewhere between the cultures of ...

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

Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...

Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. No reason is ever stated for the fusion of Winnipeg reality and Iranian New Wave cinema.

Driving around Montreal on a gray November day with Universal Language writer-director Matthew Rankin, production designer Louisa Schabas noticed an elementary school with a row of stark, monolithic ...

Both a valentine to Iranian cinema and an absurdist look at Winnipeg, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin's comedy is ...

Universal Language” is delightfully absurdist, with little moments in each story that both make sense yet defy expectations.