“Chicken for Linda!” directors Sébastien Laudenbach and Chiara Malta will follow-up their multiple award-winning feature with a mortality-themed animal tale “My Stupid Intentions.”
Adapted from a 2023 book from Italian author Bernardo Zannoni, the decidedly adult novel reads as the autobiography of a beech marten born into poverty then raised into a harsh and uncaring world.
“This is a book of extraordinary cruelty,” Malta tells Variety. “It’s a very dark tale that deals with death and the emergence of consciousness in the animal kingdom. Because with consciousness comes nostalgia, memory, the fear of mortality, and the awareness of being finite. With it comes loss, grief and chaos –
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