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Fantastic Planet

1973, Movie, 1h 12min

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.

Country: France,Czechia

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Reviews

Critic Alan Morrison

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...proof that Euro animation occasionally throws up an oddity to stem the flow from the US and Japan.

Read full review at Empire

Michael Thomsen

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Måske LIDT overvurderet fransk sci fi animationsfilm for voksne. Visuelt flot, men også LIDT kedelig.

3 years ago

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In a distant future, a powerful alien race known as the Traags has brought humans from Earth to a planet called Ygam, where they are kept as pets or hunted for sport. One human, a young boy named Terr, is adopted by a Traag leader and raised as a pet. However, Terr discovers a way to learn the Traags' advanced technology and escapes into the wilderness to join a group of wild humans. Together, they use their newfound knowledge to fight back against the Traags and eventually negotiate a peaceful coexistence.

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