‘Universal Language’ Director Matthew Rankin On His Surreal Dark Horse Bid For Best International Feature Film: “People Feel It”

Matthew Rankin’s second feature is something of an anomaly on this year’s Oscar shortlist for International Feature Film. For one thing, it takes place in a world that doesn’t actually exist, positing a surreal fusion of east and west that transplants the earnest rustic dramas of the Middle East to the bland, snow-covered industrial estates