Fantastic Planet

A landmark of adult animation and one of the most influential animated science-fiction films ever made, Fantastic Planet remains as visually astonishing and intellectually daring today as it was upon its release.

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.

Part of Laloux’s Worlds, a celebration of René Laloux’s visionary science-fiction animation in honor of the new 4K restoration of Gandahar.