A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.
His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.
Universal Language” is delightfully absurdist, with little moments in each story that both make sense yet defy expectations.
Director Mohammad Rasoulof tracks social and moral collapse with the kind of unnerving calm and visual precision that made the Iranian New Wave so striking when Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the ...
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