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Far-Out Fantasies

Les escargots

11m

Directed by René Laloux • 1966 • France

FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS.

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