Event

Fantastic Planet (BYOB)

Admission $8 Cash Only
9pm (Times subject to change)
(B.Y.O.B)

Fantastic Planet (1973)
La planète sauvage (original title)
PG | 1h 12min | Animation, Sci-Fi

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Lalouxs 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.

Director: René Laloux

Writers: Stefan Wul (novel), Roland Topor (adaptation)

Stars: Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin

The film's score was composed by Alain Goraguer