What is Fantastic Planet / Waking Life about?

Double Feature: FANTASTIC PLANET (LA PLANETE SAUVAGE), 1973, Argos Films, 72 min. French director and animator Rene Laloux’s masterpiece is an astonishingly beautiful and otherworldly vision of a distant planet where humans are kept as pets by a race of gigantic, blue-skinned overlords called the Draags. Winner of the Special Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. In French with English subtitles. WAKING LIFE, 2001, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 99 min. Director Richard Linklater filmed his actors and then rotoscoped the footage to produce this surreal and cerebral animated wonder. Philosophical conversations between a young man (Wiley Wiggins) and the unusual characters he encounters cause him to question whether he is actually asleep or awake.

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What is Fantastic Planet / Waking Life about?: Double Feature: FANTASTIC PLANET (LA PLANETE SAUVAGE), 1973, Argos Films, 72 min. French director and animator Rene Laloux’s masterpiece is an astonishingly beautiful and otherworldly vision of a distant planet where humans are kept as pets by a race of gigantic, blue-skinned overlords called the Draags. Winner of the Special Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. In French with English subtitles. WAKING LIFE, 2001, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 99 min. Director Richard Linklater filmed his actors and then rotoscoped the footage to produce this surreal and cerebral animated wonder. Philosophical conversations between a young man (Wiley Wiggins) and the unusual characters he encounters cause him to question whether he is actually asleep or awake.