Fantastic Planet (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG
A sublime trip to a fine new world
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- 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:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
an utterly unique film
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 4/5 --
A jarring examination of racism and intolerance.
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Common Sense Media
An outstanding classic of the European animation cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]
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La Jornada
With an animation style based around cut-out elements and camera dissolves, Laloux and his team create a woozily hallucinatory feel...
Sight and Sound
The film has a flat quality that cannot entirely be overcome by the sensational animation and the obvious good intentions of its creators.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/5 --
For original, thoughtful, often strong (but tasteful) animation, I recommend Fantastic Planet for family viewing.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
There's surprising depth to the images given this style.
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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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