Fantastic Planet (1973)

Original title

La Planète sauvage

Directed by

René Laloux

Genre

science fiction film, arthouse science fiction film, adult animated film

Country

Czechoslovakia, France

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 1,109 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Giant humanoid aliens keep tiny humans as pets and pests on a strange planet. The story follows a small human who learns from the aliens and leads an uprising for freedom.

surrealdreamlikeunsettlingslow-burncerebralvisually lushbleakalienating

What happens

Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète Sauvage; Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. 'The Wild Planet') is a 1973 surrealist adult animated science fiction art film directed by René Laloux. Its allegorical story, about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them animals, is based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by the French writer Stefan Wul. The film was written by Laloux and Roland Topor; the latter also made the production design. It was a co-production between companies from France and Czechoslovakia and was animated at Jiří Trnka Studio in Prague. A working title while in development was Sur la planète Ygam (On the Planet Ygam), which is where most of the story takes place; the actual title (The Fantastic/Savage Planet) is the name of Ygam's moon. Production began in 1963. Fantastic Planet was awarded the Grand Prix special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, and in 2016, it was ranked the 36th greatest animated movie ever by Rolling Stone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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