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Bridget Fonda - Lightyears
 | Title: | LIGHT YEARS (1988) |
| Genre: | Animated Movie |
| Original Title: | Gandahar |
| Director: | Rene Laloux and Harvey Weinstein |
| Voices of: | Bridget Fonda, Glenn Close, Jennifer Grey, Christopher Plummer |
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French director Laloux began developing this animated feature in 1974, a
year after the release of his FANTASTIC PLANET. What has emerged
more than a decade later is a fascinating, but ultimately pretentious, arty
jumble. The story takes place on the planet Gandahar, a perfect world of
contented people. One day a village is attacked by an unseen enemy,
whose weapons turn the fleeing citizens into stone. As the countryside is
laid waste, Queen Ambisextra (Close) sends her son Sylvain (Shea) on a
mission to avenge the attack. Plagued with a murky narrative, simplistic
symbolism, and bland characterizations, the film is somewhat redeemed
by its memorable surreal images. Isaac Asimov performs a workmanlike
adaptation of the French script into English. |
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