FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS.
- Drama
- Comedy
Year
1966
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A sly political satire realized through charming hand-drawn animation, BON VOYAGE SIM features one of director Moustapha Alassane’s many beloved cartoon frogs as Monsieur Sim, the president of the Republic of Toads, who faces a crisis when he returns home from a “diplomatic” trip abroad.
- Drama
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Pink changes the designs for a house to his own pinkprints and fights with the builder to make sure they are built.
- Comedy
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Pink learns to play the violin, and interrupts a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with the Pink Panther theme played on various instruments.
- Comedy
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A parody of Czech fairytale clichés about three princes who have to go for a miraculous elixir to cure their sick father.
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A film about the relationship between a man and a fly in which the aggravating persistence of the fly grows into an obsession with the man and becomes a veritable monster.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A tamer of wild horses encounters a metal monster in the shape of a horse. When he tried to move it, the horse turns into a mechanized freak, which threatens to destroy the world. But, when he started the right lever, this miracle of technology spread its wings and carried man into space.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A competitive game of one-upsmanship between two men, one small and one tall.
- Comedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The film was made on the theme of short Slavonic couplets that are still sung today in Slavonia. Two girls, one rich, the other poor and more beautiful, love the same guy. The guy is a little hesitant, but still decides to go with the poor girl. Although the rich woman is insulted, she is quickly comforted by another, moustached, groom.
- Drama
- Musical
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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While a man is trying to rest on a public bench, passersby want to know what he keeps in the bag next to him
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy