René Laloux

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French animator and film director best known for the 1973 animated film La Planète sauvage (Fantastic Planet / Il Pianeta Selvaggio). Noted for surreal, psychedelic science-fiction animation and collaborations with artists such as Roland Topor.

Collaborated with Roland Topor on Fantastic Planet; soundtrack for Fantastic Planet composed by Alain Goraguer. Style noted for two-dimensional, often theatrical staging and a surreal, unsettling visual approach.

René Laloux is a French animator/director noted for the 1973 animated film Fantastic Planet (Il Pianeta Selvaggio). Reviews praise its surreal, unsettling imagery, theatrical two-dimensional animation and Alain Goraguer's psychedelic soundtrack. The film's themes include antispeciesism and the smallness of humanity in the universe.