György Pálfi’s “Hen” makes a movie star of an unlikely figure: the chicken. Having its world premiere in Toronto’s competitive Platform section, “Hen” sees the Hungarian director enlist a stellar cast of eight real-life chickens all taking turns as the titular character to build a moving, melancholic musing on life in a seaside village against the backdrop of Greece’s migrant crisis.
Speaking with Variety ahead of the film’s premiere, the “Taxidermia” filmmaker — whose work has played in Cannes and won major awards internationally — says the idea for the unusual film first came to him in 2019 as he was undergoing a “difficult period.” “For political reasons, I
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