FANTASTIC PLANET
Special Features: 50th Anniversary. Tickets $8
[LA PLANÈTE SAUVAGE]
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux's animated marvel FANTASTIC PLANET, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags' oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor, brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR René Laloux; SCR Roland Topor, from the novel "Oms en série" by Stefan Wul; PROD Anatole Dauman. France/Czechoslovakia, 1973, color, 72 min. In French and Czech with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 72 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, December 09, 2023
Genre: Animation, fantasy