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Universal Language (French: Une langue universelle, Persian: Avaz boughalamoune) is a 2024 Canadian comedy-drama film, co-written and directed by Matthew Rankin. The film had its world premiere at the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, on 18 May 2024.
May 18, 2024 · Universal Language: Directed by Matthew Rankin. With Rojina Esmaeili, Danielle Fichaud, Sobhan Javadi, Pirouz Nemati. Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it.
In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and...
May 27, 2024 · A deadpan comedy riffing on Iranian Cinema, Matthew Rankin's 'Universal Language' won the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight audience award in Cannes.
May 18, 2024 · Matthew Rankin’s conceptual, playful Universal Language – in which Iran is transposed onto Winnipeg, or vice versa – is by turns arch and over-arching. While this lightly comic caper is a ...
May 24, 2024 · Cannes. ‘Universal Language’ Review: Guy Maddin Meets Abbas Kiarostami in a Deadpan Canadian Fable. Tehran comes to Winnipeg in Matthew Rankin's singular gem about cross-cultural exchange. By...
May 18, 2024 · In his gently satirical “Universal Language,” writer-director Matthew Rankin imagines a rather fanciful solution, where Farsi is now the region’s dominant tongue. Taking his cues from such...
