820 - Fantastic Planet (1973)
Random Acts of Cinema
English - March 26, 2024 00:49 - 1 hour - 34.7 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsVisual Arts Arts TV & Film criterion movies cinema film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 879 - Taipei Story (1985)
Next Episode: 1215 - Shakes the Clown (1991)
René Lalou’s timeless (well, maybe not exactly) hand drawn science fiction epic turns a skeptical eye on human systems of power in an unimaginable world of inhuman blue giants (that are somehow even more human). You know: it’s your basic Jack and the Beanstalk meets Avatar situation. With better (by which I mean funkier) music.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Bobcat Goldthwait’s Shakes the Clown (1991).