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The Snails
The Snails
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THE SNAILS

Les escargots

Directed by René Laloux
France, 1966
Animation, Fantasy, Short

Synopsis

A gardener tries his best to make his salad plants grow. It is only when he cries that his tears finally water the field and the salads grow huge. The incredible size attracts a multitude of snails that quickly become giant too, causing disasters and panic in the nearby city.

Synopsis

A gardener tries his best to make his salad plants grow. It is only when he cries that his tears finally water the field and the salads grow huge. The incredible size attracts a multitude of snails that quickly become giant too, causing disasters and panic in the nearby city.

Our take

Before the legendary French animator René Laloux went to outer space with his psychedelic fantasia Fantastic Planet, he kept his feet firmly rooted in the soil in this charming—and award-winning!—short about snails. Exactly what will it take to make the poor farmer’s plants flourish?