René Laloux
{{Short description|French animator and director (1929–2004)}}
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| birth_place = Paris, France
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| death_place = Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France
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Film director
Screenwriter
| yearsactive = 1957–1998
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René Laloux ({{IPA|fr|lalu|lang}}; 13 July 1929 – 15 March 2004){{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=René Laloux - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/5d4207c2a8434bec920a84dcdaf7fc29 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=12 April 2024 |language=de |date=}} was a French animator, screenwriter and film director.
Biography
He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns. It is at the psychiatric institution that he made the 1960 film Monkey's Teeth (Les Dents du Singe), in collaboration with Paul Grimault's studio, and using a script written by the Cour Cheverny's interns.
Another important collaborator of his was Roland Topor with whom Laloux made Dead Time (Les Temps Morts, 1964), The Snails (Les Escargots, 1965) and his most famous work, the feature length Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage, 1973).
Laloux also worked with Jean Giraud (Mœbius) to create the lesser known film Les Maîtres du temps (Time Masters), released in 1982. Laloux's 1987 film, Gandahar, was released in the US as Light Years, and made in cooperation with the artist Caza. The US version was redubbed by Harvey Weinstein, from a screenplay adapted by Isaac Asimov. The US version was not as successful as the French, grossing less than $400,000 on its release.{{cite book|author=Beck, Jerry|title=The Animated Movie Guide|page=143|publisher=Chicago Review Press|year=2005}}
Laloux died of a heart attack on 14 March 2004 in Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France.{{cite web|url=http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/fantastic-planet/essay|title=The schizophrenic cinema of René Laloux|author=Craig Keller|date=2006 |website=Eurekavideo|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021092735/http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/fantastic-planet/essay/|archivedate=October 21, 2008|accessdate=February 21, 2021}}
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- {{cite news|url=http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18362193.html|title=Décès du réalisateur René Laloux|author=Guillaume Martin|date=March 15, 2004|website=Allocine|language=fr|accessdate=February 21, 2021}}
Filmography
Feature films
- Fantastic Planet (1973)[https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.3/articles/beck1.3.html Don Bluth Goes Independent - AWN.com]
- Time Masters (1982)
- Gandahar (1987) (released in the U.S. in bowdlerized form under the title Light Years)
Short films
- Tick-Tock (Tic-Tac) (1957)
- Les Achalunés (1958)
- The Monkey's Teeth (Les Dents du singe) (1960)
- Dead Times (Les Temps morts) (1964)
- The Snails (Les Escargots) (1965)
- The Play (1975)
- Quality Control (1984)
- The Captive (La Prisonnière) (1985)
- How Wang-fo Was Saved (Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé) ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321750/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk 1987])
- Eye of the Wolf (L'Œil du loup) (1998) (screenwriter only)
References
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External links
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- [http://palais.wikidot.com/rene-laloux René Laloux biography] at Le Palais des dessins animés
- [http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/fantastic-planet/essay eurekavideo.co.uk, Masters of Cinema series] – Craig Keller: The schizophrenic cinema of René Laloux, 2006.
- [http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-wan-f-was-saved-1987.html Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé review] at Lessons From the School of Inattention
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Category:French film directors
Category:French animated film directors
Category:French science fiction film directors
Category:French surrealist artists