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Une Langue Universelle (2024)

Comedy | 89 minutes
3,15 27 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 89 minuten

Alternative title: Universal Language

Country: Canada

Directed by: Matthew Rankin

Stars: Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi and Sobhan Javadi

IMDb score: 6,9 (2.947)

Releasedate: 18 December 2024

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Une Langue Universelle plot

Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to extract it. Massoud leads a group of increasingly confused tourists through the monuments and historical sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his job with the Quebec government and embarks on a mysterious journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities blur, intertwine and echo in a surreal comedy of disorientation.

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De filosoof

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The film is absurdist in plot, humor, and design, reminiscent of the films of Wes Anderson, Roy Andersson, the Coen brothers, Thomas Jensen, Lanthimos, Kaurismäki, Dupieux, and likely a number of other Iranian directors. It's also original, though the humor is often rather weak, and the most unintentionally absurd aspect of the film is the utopian idea that two cultures flow together like rivers into a peaceful lake without conflict (so you're unsure whether the film is set in Iran or Canada, though it most resembles a Canada taken over by Iran in another Trumpian land swap). The elements of the various storylines ultimately come together neatly. All in all, the film is witty, entertaining, and has a unique atmosphere that combines a fairytale-like Arabian Nights with an icy North and warmly lit houses. If the film were less confusing, it would have been a perfect children's film.

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mrklm

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When Master Bilodeau [Kani Soleymanlou] learns that his student Omid [Sobhan Javadi] has lost his glasses because they supposedly landed around the neck of a now-fugitive turkey, he sends the entire class into the broom closet until they reappear. Two classmates [Rojina Esmaëli, Saba Vahedyousefi] go in search. One of Massoud's [Pirouz Nemati] many jobs is that of a tour guide in Winnipeg for tourists who (not entirely surprisingly) find it utterly incomprehensible. Old-fashioned commercials, attempts to thaw a banknote from a block of ice, and Groucho Marx all form part of the plot of this absurdist comedy, which, after a strong start, descends into a stylistic exercise. The title may allude to the universal language of cinema—and Rankin is full of interesting visual ideas—but here style comes at the expense of substance.

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