Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is a good chance that “Universal Language,” the latest feature from writer, director and actor Matthew Rankin, will earn ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Oscilloscope releases the film Friday, February 14, 2025. Despite being set in a parallel-universe Winnipeg ...

The second feature by Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin ('The Twentieth Century') won the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight audience award in Cannes. By Jordan Mintzer Newsflash: Iran has invaded the ...

No, commencing à la “Borat” (with its faux-Kazakh title cards), this absurdist comedy’s opening dedication reads “in the name of Friendship.” Once Rankin has pushed past any knee-jerk xenophobia, and ...

There’s a scene partway through Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language that is a triumph of visual filmmaking. One of the protagonists, Matthew (aka Matheiu), played by the director himself, is arranging ...

Tehran comes to Winnipeg in Matthew Rankin's singular gem about cross-cultural exchange. Despite being set in a parallel-universe Winnipeg where the people talk in Farsi and the world around them ...