2025-08-23 - La Planet Sauvage by René Laloux ============================================= Oms En Série (book) Oms En Série (graphic novel) A friend sent me a link to Fantastic Planet (1973), a surreal French science fiction animation. I finally got around to watching it. The pace is a little slow. The content is almost psychedelic. One review calls it a retro-futurist Alice In Wonderland. Spot on! In a nutshell, aliens domesticate humans as pets, with unintended consequences. What i enjoyed the most was the soundtrack, which was downright ambient and groovy at times, and incorporating cheesy arcade-style synths at others. Here's a link to watch the English translation: Fantastic Planet (1973) English Dub The movie is based on a French language book, Ohms In Series, which sounds like a terrible electronics pun to me. Resistance is futile. It has also been adapted to a three volume graphic novel. Ohms In Series by Stefan Wul The Wikipedia page has spoilers for the animation. Fantastic Planet (Wikipedia) p.s. This brings to mind another excellent animation and graphic novel on this same theme: Dream of a Thousand Cats. The animation by Hisko Hulsing based on the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman. Dream Cat As before, the Wikipedia page contains spoilers. Dream of a Thousand Cats tags: counterculture,sci-fi,video Tags ==== counterculture sci-fi video