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The feature films of French animator Ren\u00e9 Laloux are the closest thing to cinematic equivalents of comics magazine M\u00e9tal Hurlant<\/em>. Laloux’s collaboration with Roland Topor, Fantastic Planet<\/em> (1973), is familiar to Anglophone audiences but fewer people are aware of Time Masters<\/em> (1982) and Gandahar<\/em> (1988), two more science fiction films made with Moebius and Philippe Caza respectively. Time Masters<\/em> looks marvellous but the story (based on a novel by Stefan Wul) lacks the strangeness of Fantastic Planet<\/em>. Gandahar<\/em>,\u00a0 based on a novel by Jean-Pierre Andrevon, I’ve yet to see but anyone searching for it should be aware that the version dubbed into English (and retitled The Light Years<\/em>) dumped Gabriel Yared’s score, and had a sexual encounter censored by the usual rabble of prudish American producers.<\/p>\n The Captive<\/em> (1988) continues the collaboration with Philippe Caza being a 7-minute adaptation of Caza’s comic story Equinoxe<\/em> (1982). The music for this one is also by Gabriel Yared, and this copy at YouTube<\/a> includes English subtitles. For comparison, the comic story is here<\/a>. Of the two I prefer the comic but then I’ve always enjoyed Caza’s work.<\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } The feature films of French animator Ren\u00e9 Laloux are the closest thing to cinematic equivalents of comics magazine M\u00e9tal Hurlant. Laloux’s collaboration with Roland Topor, Fantastic Planet (1973), is familiar to Anglophone audiences but fewer people are aware of Time Masters (1982) and Gandahar (1988), two more science fiction films made with Moebius and Philippe … Continue reading “The Captive, a film by Ren\u00e9 Laloux”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,9,7,20],"tags":[6740,3450,6739,4618,4086,895,896,6738],"class_list":["post-16079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-comics","category-film","category-science-fiction","tag-gabriel-yared","tag-jean-giraud-moebius","tag-jean-pierre-andrevon","tag-metal-hurlant","tag-philippe-caza","tag-rene-laloux","tag-roland-topor","tag-stefan-wul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4bl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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