Universal Language (French: Une langue universelle, Persian: آواز بوقلمون, romanized: Avaz boughalamoune, lit.
The website's consensus reads: "Bridging two nations with a clever and surreal conceit, Universal Language is a culture clash comedy brimming with wisdom.
[14] Fionnuala Halligan of Screen Daily wrote: "Universal Language is doggedly eccentric, something that’s mirrored in its exaggerated aesthetic.
There’s a pink cowboy-hatted singing turkey-shop worker; a man wandering around wearing a lit Christmas tree over his body; an absurdist bingo hall where men and women are interchangeable.
"[15] Writing for IndieWire, David Ehrlich noted that the film "is first and foremost a testament to the shared artifice of all filmic storytelling, and to the singular realities it’s able to bring alive in turn.