Fantastic Planet: The Animated Sci-Fi Fever Dream

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

There is a particular kind of animated film that a certain sort of teenager discovers at exactly the wrong hour of the night and never fully recovers from. René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet — La Planète sauvage, 1973 — is the founding text of that category. It is a science-fiction feature made from paper cutouts, scored with some of the funkiest, eeriest music ever attached to a cartoon, and built around an allegory of domination that lands harder the more you know about where and how it was made. Half a century on it still looks like nothing else, because almost nothing else was ever made this way.

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Fantastic Planet: The Animated Sci-Fi Fever Dream