Fantastic Planet Blu Ray – Jean Topart, Jean Valmont 

La Plan”te Sauvage tells the story of Oms human-like creatures kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called Draags. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam where we follow our narrator an Om called Terr from infancy to adulthood. He manages to escape enslavement from a Draag learning device used to educate the savage Oms – and begins to organise an Om revolt. The imagination invested in the surreal creatures music and sound design and eerie landscapes is immense and unforgettable. Widely regarded as an allegorical statement on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia Fantastic Planet was five years in the making at Prague’s Jiri Trnka Studios. The direction of Ren” Laloux the incredible art of Roland Topor and Alain Goraguer’s brilliant complementary score (much sampled by the hip-hop community) all combine to make La Plan”te Sauvage a mind-searing experience.