Fantastic Planet (#820)
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director RenĆ© Lalouxās 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 Draagsā 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.
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New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate English-language soundtrack
Les temps morts (1965) and Les escargots (1966), two early short films by director RenƩ Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor
Laloux sauvage, a 2009 documentary on Laloux
Episode of the French television program Italiques from 1974 about Toporās work
Interview with Topor from 1973
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Brooke
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Fantastic Planet (#820)
Fantastic Planet (#820)
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director RenĆ© Lalouxās 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 Draagsā 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.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate English-language soundtrack
Les temps morts (1965) and Les escargots (1966), two early short films by director RenƩ Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor
Laloux sauvage, a 2009 documentary on Laloux
Episode of the French television program Italiques from 1974 about Toporās work
Interview with Topor from 1973
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Brooke
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Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director RenĆ© Lalouxās 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 Draagsā 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.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate English-language soundtrack
Les temps morts (1965) and Les escargots (1966), two early short films by director RenƩ Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor
Laloux sauvage, a 2009 documentary on Laloux
Episode of the French television program Italiques from 1974 about Toporās work
Interview with Topor from 1973
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Brooke
