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Fantastic Planet

July 15, 2023 @ 7:00 PM 9:00 PM

$8

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel—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.

  • Director: René Laloux
  • Year: 1973
  • Country: France, Czechoslovakia
  • Runtime: 71 minutes