FilmStubs: Fantastic Planet (1973)
On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders. (PG, 72 min.)
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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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. [Criterion]
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin
Director: René Laloux
Language: French
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
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