Matthew Rankin is proud he and fellow Winnipeg-born filmmaker Guy Maddin are going to the 77th Cannes Film Festival, but he’s not sure if his hometown will pay attention. Matthew Rankin says he's proud to attend this year's Cannes Film Festival with fellow Winnipeg-born director Guy Maddin — especially since his hometown’s indie film scene often gets overlooked.
They are among several Canadians with films screening at the 77th edition of the festival — kicking off Tuesday in southern France — including Toronto’s David Cronenberg, whose horror feature "The Shrouds" will compete for the Palme d’Or. He says that friction has led Winnipeg’s indie filmmakers to have a “punk rock, anti-establishment, anti-mainstream” impulse.
“It’s about exploring the fluidity of our experience of life, fluidity of identity, how we overlap,” says Rankin. Rankin says "Universal Language" fits into the style of Winnipeg’s indie film scene, which has “taken the vocabulary of experimental film and has reprocessed it to tell these very personal, very bizarre, very countercultural, personal stories.”
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