‘If I were a chicken, I would eat humans’: György Pálfi on the eight-chicken ensemble in ‘Hen’ and making films under Viktor Orbán
Hungarian filmmaker György Pálfi discusses his new film 'Hen', which features a chicken as the protagonist. He explores philosophical questions about the boundary between human and animal nature through this unconventional narrative.
Why it matters
The film challenges traditional cinematic tropes and explores the intersection of human consciousness and animal instinct.
A chicken makes perfect sense as a György Pálfi protagonist. With a filmography of oddities spanning Hukkle (2002), Taxidermia (2006) and Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012), the Hungarian filmmaker has had a curious knack for making the patently bizarre feel perfectly matter-of-fact. But even by his standards, Hen sounds rather eccentric. The latest feather in his cap appears to take its cue from the age-old question: why did the chicken cross the road? Why, to escape an industrial poultry farm in Greece and bust a human-trafficking operation, of course.
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