Gandahar
North Korea, France
1988
83 Min
French
Synopsis
René Laloux, director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Gandahar, his final animated feature film, in 1988. Based on an original story by Jean-Pierre Andrevon, and a huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Philippe Caza. Gandahar is a fascinating, adult animation which examines genetic mutation, the importance of organic farming, and urges a respect for nature that resonates today more than ever.
Life in the idyllic paradise of Gandahar seems peaceful and in joyous order, until the Mirror Birds report that inhabitants of whole villages have been turned to stone. A council of women chooses Sylvain Lanvère to uncover Gandahar’s mysterious metallic attackers. In doing so, he finds an underground race of deformed Gandaharians and an oversized motherbrain, both the result of botched genetic experiments. — Masters of Cinema
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René Laloux
René Laloux (July 13, 1929–March 13, 2004) was a French animator and film director.
He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns. It is at the psychiatric institution that he made 1960’s Monkey’s Teeth (Les Dents du Singe), in collaboration with Paul Grimault’s studio, and using a script written by the Cour Cheverny’s interns.
Another important collaborator of his was Roland Topor with whom Laloux made Dead Time (Les Temps Morts, 1964), The Snails (Les Escargots, 1965) and his most famous work, the feature length Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage, 1973).
Laloux also worked with Jean Giraud (Mœbius) to create the lesser known film Les Maîtres du temps (Time Masters) in 1981. Laloux’s 1988 film, Gandahar, was released… read more
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Gandahar" (René Laloux, 1988)
By Glenn Kenny on August 11, 2009
One of the many admirable characteristics of the Eureka!/Masters of Cinema label is its disinclination to do things by half measures. An ordinary
GANDAHAR DVD Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Eureka recently released all of the films of René Laloux on DVD as part of their “Masters of Cinema” series, and in the previous weeks I’ve reviewed “La Planète Sauvage” (aka Fantastic Planet) and “Les
GANDAHAR DVD Review
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Eureka recently released all of the films of René Laloux on DVD as part of their “Masters of Cinema” series, and in the previous weeks I’ve reviewed “La Planète Sauvage” (aka Fantastic Planet) and “Les
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