This is a film that can’t sit still, like a fidgety child; the unruly, outspoken kid who gets sent to the corner for disrupting the class. But such children are often the most sensitive and need to be protected. We have taken the liberty of depicting them differently depending on the scene and the scale of the shots. The characters can be portrayed most simply when far away, and much more realistically when seen up close. They are rendered as black line drawings identified by single colors: yellow for Linda, orange for Paulette [...]. This visual representation is simple and fun, and we feel it is a nice way of addressing diversity: the kind of diversity that is not related to ethnic origins, but rather to personality and the characters as individuals.
And when seen from very far away, the characters can sometimes just appear as simple colored blobs, like stickers. And all kids love stickers!
Chicken for Linda! is an ode to freedom, to revolution, to disorder, even anarchy. This vitality spreads like an oil slick that coats everything it encounters: rules, common sense, the Establishment. A film that takes us back to our childhood, like the characters who, as the story progresses, regress from responsible adults to fearful, lying, cheating individuals who reveal their weaknesses, unafraid of ridicule.
It’s an offbeat film with a sharp sense of absurdity and satire. A film that takes several tangents as its tone passes from serious to a sense of wonder, told with humor that is, at times, tainted with melancholy, to touch the inner child deep inside all of us.