Fantastic Planet (Criterion Collection) PG
A sublime trip to a fine new world
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 21, 2016
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | René Laloux | |
Narrated by | Jean Valmont | |
Screenwriting by | René Laloux & Roland Topor | |
Produced by | Anatole Dauman |
Entertainment Reviews:
There is a strange, dreamlike placidity that hangs - like a silent, terrifying fog - over René Laloux's 1973 animated sci-fi classic.
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CraveOnline
Fantastic Planet is one of the most intriguing movies of the animated and adventure genres. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
This is a beautiful work of art which combines serious sci-fi with fanciful designs, a distinct style and a big message. A classic which is very highly recommended.
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ScreenAnarchy
An outstanding classic of the European animation cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]
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La Jornada
Rating: 4/5 --
There's surprising depth to the images given this style.
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Rotoscopers
The whole thing is marvelously bizarre, highly imaginative but, alas, all too short.
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Los Angeles Free Press
...Disquieting, eerie and vastly imaginative...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
FANTASTIC PLANET is Rene Laloux's bizarre, enthralling adaptation of Stefan Wul's allegorical science-fiction novel. The eye-popping underground sensation was also a critical success, winning awards at several prestigious film festivals (most notably, the Grand Prix in 1973 at Cannes). Set on the planet Ygam, the film depicts a world in which Draags--a gigantic race of blue alien beings--run the show. Their pets are human beings--or, as they are known in Laloux's world, Oms--who are mistreated by their devious owners. Fed up with the abuse, one Om organizes his brethren and stages a mutiny that will forever change life on Ygam.
Laloux's film blends 1960s ideologies with 1970s technology to create a work that profoundly impacted animators all over the world. In creating a troubled universe dominated by the soulless, conformist Draags, FANTASTIC PLANET rejects that notion and embraces the concept of individuality. A troubled political climate forced Laloux and fellow collaborator Roland Torpor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's 1976 thriller THE TENANT) to relocate to Paris from Prague in order to finish the film. Fortunately, they were able to do so, leaving audiences with this startling animated achievement.
Laloux's film blends 1960s ideologies with 1970s technology to create a work that profoundly impacted animators all over the world. In creating a troubled universe dominated by the soulless, conformist Draags, FANTASTIC PLANET rejects that notion and embraces the concept of individuality. A troubled political climate forced Laloux and fellow collaborator Roland Torpor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's 1976 thriller THE TENANT) to relocate to Paris from Prague in order to finish the film. Fortunately, they were able to do so, leaving audiences with this startling animated achievement.
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- Sales Rank: 22,730
- UPC: 715515179218
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