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 ...

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.

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

With deep influences from the French and Iranian New Waves, Universal Language is equal parts a moving experience and a ...

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

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in ...

One of Canada's most idiosyncratic fantasists discusses the links between Iranian cinema, architecture, and cultural exchange ...

Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and ...

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

Take this four-star tour of a Winnipeg that may never exist. The stony, terse comedy “Universal Language” has all the wind, snow and monotony one might envision in Manitoba, especially for ...