HEN – STORY OF A HEN
Type: philosophical-animal apologue
Direction: Gyorgy Pálfi. With Yannis Kokiasmenos, Maria Diakopanayotou, Argyris Pantazaras, Machmout Bamerini, Chronis Barbarian
We feel sorry for Cochi and Renato, who sang the opposite, but the chicken is an intelligent animal. At least the protagonist of György Pálfi’s film is which he begins to tell when he is still inside an egg.
Having come into the world, our feathered heroine understands that the fate that the intensive farming where she ended up reserves for her is certainly not rosy and she flees to seek a better life. But even far from the farm, things are not so easy: there are foxes that would like to eat it, and means of transport that risk crushing it.
A moment from “Hen – Story of a Hen”, by Gyðrgy Pálfi.
Until she arrives, also thanks to a big dog who takes a liking to her, in a restaurant where not everything that happens is legal. Played by eight different hens, the film rejects any type of anthropomorphism to make us see the world from the perspective of a bird.
The director, no stranger to risky bets (for a love story in Final Cut: Ladies and Gentleman had used 451 clips of vintage films), he skilfully exploits the forms of genres – from road movies to thrillers, to melodrama, to catastrophe (fire with risk of fatal burns) – to make us understand that the world of men is not much better than that of animals. On the contrary.
For those who want to see reality from a chicken’s point of view.
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