Fantastic Planet
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.
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Alternate English-language soundtrack
- Les temps morts (1965) and Les escargots (1966), two early short films by director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor
- Laloux sauvage, a 2009 documentary on Laloux
- Episode of the French television program Italiques from 1974 about Topor’s work
- Interview with Topor from 1973
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Brooke
New cover by Eric Skillman
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Alternate English-language soundtrack
- Les temps morts (1965) and Les escargots (1966), two early short films by director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor
- Laloux sauvage, a 2009 documentary on Laloux
- Episode of the French television program Italiques from 1974 about Topor’s work
- Interview with Topor from 1973
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Brooke
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Jennifer Drake
- Eric Baugin
- Sylvie Lenoir
- Jean Topart
- Jean Valmont
Credits
- Director
- René Laloux
- From the novel Oms en série by
- Stefan Wul
- Adaptation, screenplay, and dialogue
- Roland Topor
- Adaptation, screenplay, and dialogue
- René Laloux
- Produced by
- Simon Damiani
- Produced by
- André Valio-Cavaglione
- Original drawings
- Roland Topor
- Character animation
- Josef Kábrt
- Scene animation
- Josef Vánǎ
- Music
- Alain Goraguer
A scene from Fantastic Planet
