
A parable of corruption in Greece as told through the ingenuity and survival instincts of a chicken, it says something when the most normal film in a director’s filmography is an endurance thriller told entirely from the point of view of a hen.
Hungarian auteur and provocateur György Pálfi has been making extreme, grotesquely poetic, viscerally absurd, surreal cinematic entertainments for nearly two decades. His debut film Hukkle was a deceptive murder-mystery as witnessed by a old man with a hiccup condition. His follow-up, and perhaps most notorious film, Taxidermia, arguable the strangest film ever made, follows several generations of an extremely Soviet, extremely weird Hungarian family, and features bestiality, a flaming penis ejaculation, graphic pig butchering, competitive eating, extreme obesity, a metric tonne...
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