‹ Gandahar › excerpt - Complete film available English-subbed on DVD

A short sample of the 1988 René Laloux/Philippe Caza film 'Gandahar,' found at the French distributor's Web site -- http://www.arte-boutique.fr/detailProduct.action?product.id=17902

This sequence in particular strikes me as being almost shot-for-shot what the opening titles of Disney's 'Pocahontas' would look like if watched while thoroughly off one's head on LSD. And knowing how Disney features of the 90's were so strongly influenced by older animation -- sometimes to the point of plagiarism -- it's not impossible, though still somewhat tenuous, that this could have been a deliberate reference ('Pocahontas' came 7 years after 'Gandahar,' by the way).

If you like it, please buy the English-subtitled DVD from Masters of Cinema in the UK. For more info, you could also see my Web page about it -- http://palais.wikidot.com/gandahar

'Gandahar' is © 1987 Col.Ima.Son/Film A2/Revcom Télévision.

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[Turtleheart]

@PopuIarDemand LALOUX. And Caza.

And SEK Studio certainly make their contribution to the utter strangeness of it all, if only though the lack of such things as character, weight, physicality and dynamism being so utter as to become one itself. Though this being Laloux it's hard to tell what's intentional; he made something amazingly fun he needn't be ashamed of though such creative use of Le Maîtres du temps's very limited budget and staff, despite how much he's resented these limitations.

[OlendelL]

Indeed, ça a légèrement bercé ma pré-adolescence.. Ceci expliquerait peut-être cela. :)

[liliebia]

C'est un chouette film ainsi que les autres création de laloux (la planete sauvage et les maîtres du temps)