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Fantastic Planet DVD

NR (Not Rated) :: ACCENT CINEMA :: Released: 2007-10-23

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Fantastic Planet Summary René Laloux's Mesmerising Psychedelic Sci-fi Animated Feature Won The Special Jury Prize At The 1973 Cannes Film Festival And Is A Landmark Of European Animation. Based On Stefan Wul's Novel Oms En Série [oms By The Dozen], Laloux's Breathtaking Vision Was Released In France As La Planète Sauvage [the Savage Planet]; In The Usa As Fantastic Planet; And Immediately Drew Comparisons To Swift's Gulliver's Travels And Planet Of The Apes (both The 1968 Film And Boule's 1963 Novel). Today, The Film Can Be Seen To Prefigure Much Of The Work Of Hayao Miyazaki At Studio Ghibli (princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) Due To Its Palpable Political And Social Concerns, Cultivated Imagination, And Memorable Animation Techniques.

fantastic Planet Tells The Story Of Oms, A Human-like Species, Kept As Domesticated Pets By An Alien Race Of Blue Giants Called Draags. The Story Takes Place On The Draags' Planet Ygam, Where We Follow Our Narrator, An Om Called Terr, From Infancy To Adulthood. He Manages To Escape Enslavement From A Draag Learning Device Used To Educate The Savage Oms - And Begins To Organise An Om Revolt. The Imagination Invested In The Surreal Creatures, Music And Sound Design, And Eerie Landscapes, Is Immense And Unforgettable. This Release Includes The Early Laloux Short The Snails.

special Features: English Language Version, Original Subtitled Version, Photo Gallery, Trailer, Fantastic Laloux, The New 26 Minute Documentary On Director Rene Laloux, Short Animated Film Les Escargots (the Snails), An Animated Segment Of Sean Lennon's Music Video For "would I Be The One", Inspired By Fantastic Planet.

Based on French science fiction novelist Stefan Wul's Oms en Serie ("Oms by the Dozen"), René Laloux's La Planète Sauvage (its title changed to Fantastic Planet for the U.S. release) paints an animated tale of humans kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue humanoid giants called Traags. The story takes place on the Traags' planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood, when he escapes his subjugation with a Traag learning device with which to educate the savage Oms and incite them to revolt. As a French-Czech coproduction, this story had much resonance for its makers as an allegory of Czechoslovakia's invasion by Soviet troops in the late '60s, and had to be completed in Paris due to political pressure. While the story does not distinguish itself in the annals of science fiction, the imagination invested in the surreal backdrops, with its eerie creatures and landscapes, does. The animation technique--moving paper cutouts across backgrounds--contributes to the overall feeling of other-worldliness. Fantastic Planet won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. Included on the DVD are three early short subjects by Laloux showing his evolution toward Fantastic Planet. You have your choice of audio: French with English subtitles, or English with English subtitles. But choose the latter so you can see how much the subtitles are cheating you. --Jim Gay

Fantastic Planet DVD Techincal Details Cast:
Director: René Laloux
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 72 mins
UPC: 736899110925
Binding: DVD
Studio: ACCENT CINEMA
Release Date: 2007-10-23
Region Code: 1
Specs: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Subtitled), French (Original Language), English (Original Language),