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‘Universal Language’ Director Matthew Rankin On His Surreal Dark Horse Bid For Best International Feature Film: “People Feel It”
‘Universal Language’ director Matthew Rankin on his surreal dark horse bid for Best International Feature: “People feel it”
The plot is even harder to describe, involving a spectacle-snatching turkey, a desperately dull tour guide, and an office worker who quits his job to visit his mother, all linked by the story of two young children who find a bank note buried, tantalizingly, in the ice. There was something very touching to me about the idea that my then-octogenarian grandmother, who had always lived in Winnipeg, only spoke English, that she would have this story that would find an echo in these Iranian films on the other side of the world. Ila Firouzabadi and I are working on a docu fiction, which is partially filmed on the theme of Esperanto [a man-made international language devised in the 19th century].
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