Chicken for Linda! premiered in France at the Cannes Film Festival close to a year ago. The 73 minute hand-drawn animated effort comes from filmmakers Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach and it has finally arrived stateside after GKIDS nabbed distribution rights.
The bulk of reviews are fresh as evidenced by the 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating. That said, many of those write-ups are tempered in their flattery. GKIDS has shown an ability to their features nominated for Best Animated Feature, including seven in the past decade alone (the most recent being their first winner The Boy and the Heron). Therefore I certainly wouldn’t count Chicken out though the studio is expected to have more at bats coming later in 2024. My Oscar Prediction posts will continue…
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