How Matthew Rankin’s ‘Universal Language’ creates a fantastical version of reality
Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...
‘Universal Language' Review: Guy Maddin Meets Abbas Kiarostami in a Deadpan Canadian Fable
Described by writer-director Matthew Rankin as a piece of "autobiographical hallucination," this wonderfully deadpan whatsit is the work of a white 43-year-old Canadian man who fe ...