An animated film bluffing formally, as entertaining as intelligent and Are you interested in addressing the whole family? It's in any case all that is found in the brilliant Linda wants chicken! who does not detract from his harvest of rewards. After his passage in the "ACID" selection of Cannes, his awards to Annecy and now his César of the best animated film, the feature film by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach arrives in physical format...
Chicken for Linda!
Linda (Mélinée Leclerc's voice) is unjustly punished for a ring she allegedly stole from her mother, Paulette (Clotilde Hesme)... When she realizes her contempt, she asks her daughter what she could do to redeem herself. And Linda wants chicken... But not just any one! She claims the famous pepper chicken, the only memory left of her dad. Problem: how to cook a chicken on a day of general strike?
A promise that will lead this tricky mother-daughter duo beyond the city they live in, looking for a hen that's so hard to find...
MacGuffin: Chicken!
While cinema's MacGuffins are usually strange encrypted USB flash drives, unspeakable weapons or precious stones so dear that they would make the Queen of England pale, that of this animated film is a simple chicken! Exist the abracadabrantesque universes, the fantastic worlds overflowing with strange creatures, Linda wants some chicken! Adhesive to a tangible reality, and it feels a crazy good. And since we evoke a certain form of simplicity (which never turns to simplism!), let's start by evoking the confusing and refreshing visual style of this feature not like the others...
Indeed, against the background of beautiful decorations designed by the plastician Margaux Duseigneur (who worked on Crossing of the Florence Miailhe In particular), the characters are represented by a simple black trait filled with a single attitled color. An innovative way to represent its characters, their diversity, their character traits, allowing also holes turning to abstraction which nevertheless retain their full meaning thanks to the playful and immediately assimilated color code.
Hyperactive film
If we were to evoke the search for the main characters (a quest full of meaning, a revival both in memories and in the pursuit of an unreachable proustian reminiscence), it must be said that it will lead them far beyond the walls of their city. Between a watermelon truck, a decidedly zealous cop, a submerged grandmother, this unobtainable chicken ride Linda and her mom in a haletante race passing the hour and quarter of the movie in a finger slap.
And yet, despite the simplicity that we rented higher and this very tight duration for a feature film, Linda wants some chicken! In such a short time, he manages to develop as much his question of mourning (never lacrymal, the film is quite poignant at the moment), a plethora of visual gags and a social discourse (on the bond, collective intelligence and sharing) absolutely exciting. One of the last segments, obviously resonating with the question of a disproportionately repressive state, manages to multiply the layers of readings and never weigh the film with a skillful use of metaphor. Parents will eventually find their account as much as children, each in their own way...
After Little Nicolas: What are we waiting for to be happy? (2022) and the use of 2D more and more regularly in the mastodones of current animation (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Potty Cat 2 and others), the top of the animation basket still seems to resist the massive influx of 3D and digital effects. All this by sometimes returning to a hand-made aspect highlighting the very materiality of the techniques used that finds itself quite satisfying!
But Linda wants some chicken! is an indispensable of the past year and that he deserves largely the different rewards that have fallen upon him. A film that it is now possible to (re)see on physical media.
To continue reading on Linda wants some chicken! :
- Interview with directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach and exciting article by KillerS7ven on the work of sound in the feature film : Linda wants chicken – Annecy's insolent comedy takes the crystal!
Data sheet
DVD Zone B (France)
Publisher: Blaq Out
Duration: 73 min
Release Date: March 05, 2024
Video format : 576p/25 - 2.39
Soundtrack : French Dolby Digital 5.1 (and 2.0)
Subtitles French
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