‘Universal Language’: This Is the Oddest Movie You’ll See All Year
Courtesy of New York Film Festival
Universal Language opens with a spectacle of hilarious inappropriateness.
In a classroom in a fantastical Winnipeg where residents speak both French and Farsi, teacher Iraj Bilodeau (Mani Soleymanlou) enters late to find his students misbehaving. With comical fury, he lambastes these “creatures” for their conduct and, once the lesson begins, continues his censure on an individual basis, be it directed at a boy dressed as Groucho Marx (“Your face is disgusting to others.
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