One of my favorite movies is “Fantastic Planet” This 1970s sci-fi film with amazing world building and eye catching animation. We watch a planet sometime in the future; rabid animals unlike anything you can imagine roam free hunting and eating each-other connected by this beautiful setting filled with wild almost sentient plants. The film plays on themes of: slavery, animal cruelty, the connection between the fear and stigma of education within lower-class communities, corrupt or ill informed government officials and the impact on everyone they lead-all within an hour and 12 min movie about this little alien girl, her human pet, and “government official” father.
Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage; Czech: Divot planeta, lit. ’The Wild Planet’) is a 1973 French-language experimental independent adult animated science fiction art film, directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor, the latter of whom also completed the film’s production design.
