Friday, August 24, 2007

Fantastic Planet

Beautiful & strange animated science fiction film from the 70's directed by René Laloux. Features a planet where aliens keep oms (play on the French word for man) as pets. I watched this during the summer while I was in New York, and it is captivating; it won several awards all across the globe, including at Cannes. This is the trailer, I ordered the film and we can watch it in class if there is enough interest.





p.s. hope this one works.

2 comments:

James Budd Dees said...

this looks amazing. it's like a bosch painting. oh the human condition! when the people were flattened and pained by being in their own skin. somethings never change i guess.

Louis said...

The style of animation seems heavily influenced by Terry Gilliam. Except taken to a weird sci-fi extreme. And being weirder than Terry is saying something