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The giant inhabitants of the planet Yagam stand thirty-nine feet tall and keep the tiny Oms as pets. Humans came to this planet long ago and evolved into the Oms. The giant Draggs educate Terr, one of the Oms, who returns to unite his people. The Oms eventually acheive equality with the Draggs. A beautifully animated science fiction classic by director Rene Laloux. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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An animation masterpiece often compared to work of Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away").the French animation classic by Rene Laloux is set in a distant world, the fantastic planet, where tiny humans are kept as pets by large alien creatures. One such pet, the hero of the story, commandeers his masters learning machine and eventually leads a rebellion. The films images, with eco-hippy undertones, are phantasmagorical. As the hero wanders across the planets landscape and through strange ecologies we pass through the epic imagination of one of the worlds most inventive animators and storytellers. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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Rene Laloux's mesmerizing sci-fi classic, based on the book Om en Serie by Stefan Wul, is a landmark of European animation. La Planete Sauvage tells the tale of a race of humanoid creatures called Oms, fighting for their freedom from the giant, blue-skinned Traags, who keep them as pets. A group of rebel Oms travel to a strange planet where they try to uncover the secret of the Traags' existence. The film, which won the Grand Prix Award at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, prefigures much of the work of Hayao Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) with its palpable political and social concerns, cultivated imagination, and memorable animation techniques. "Laloux's film is a provocative foray into the psychology of state-sponsored terror...it is difficult to watch any scene without being aware of its symbolic and metaphorical potential" (Senses of Cinema). |
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