FANTASTIC PLANET (La Planète sauvage) 1973
Directed by Rene Laloux
72 minutes
In French with English subtitles
This mesmerizing psychedelic sci-fi classic is spellbinding. The Terry Gilliam/Monty Python-esque animation is totally stunning. Imagine a very SOUTH PARK type of animation, using simple cut-out paper images which are \"animated\". But the effect in this film is much more haunting....and it becomes clear that this so-called primitive style of animation actually reveals a kind of beauty or poetry that is extremely rare these days with computer generated movement. In fact, this film took a pain-taking 5 years to complete in a French collaboration with a Czechoslovakian animation studio.
FANTASTIC PLANET tells the story of human-like creatures who are kept as domestic pets by an alien race of blue giants called \"Draags\". Is this out planet or another? Is it set in the past or the future? Everything about this film is left open to the imagination and interpretation.
The biggest quality of the film is that it is profoundly disorienting....much like David Lynch\'s ERASERHEAD it keeps us suspended in an overall feeling of other-worldliness. I have heard of people doing extremely strange things after watching this film...and I have heard of people who have been haunted by it, dreaming about its strangeness for years after they had seen it. It transports the viewer into a world that is a bit like entering a Hieronymous Bosch painting. It also has a trippy 70s soundtrack by Alain Goraguer who had also composed music for Serge Gainsbourg.
This cult-classic, created along with surrealist illustrator Roland Topor, still remains a landmark of European animation. Fantastic Planet won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973.
CINEMANITA @ De Nieuwe Anita
Frederik Hendrikstraat 111 (Hugo de Grootplein)
Doors open at 19:30
The film starts at 20:30 sharp
Location
Frederik Hendrikstraat 111
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