The Avian Mirror: How György Pálfi’s ‘Hen’ Reimagines the Human Condition Through a Chicken’s Eye
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For nearly half a century, Werner Herzog’s 1977 masterpiece Stroszek has cast a long, cynical shadow over the cinematic depiction of chickens. The film’s final sequence—a haunting, surreal coda featuring a chicken pecking at a miniature piano in a…
