La Planéte Sauvage
Aug 27, 2006 05:16 PM Filed in:
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Winner
of the Grand Prix Award at the Cannes FIlm Festival in 1973,
La Planéte Sauvage was
an animated surrealist comment on the Soviet occupation of
Czechoslovakia. It was originally released to DVD in France with a
beautiful video transfer and the original French soundtrack with no
options for subtitles. When it was finally released on DVD in the
U.S. as The Fantastic Planet, Anchor Bay did a fairly shoddy job of
transfering the video and then compounded that crime by embedding
English subtitles into the video so that a viewer had the choice of
watching the film in French with English subtitles or in English
with (yes) English subtitles. Go figure. Anways, I was looking for
a small video project to mess around with, so I got a hold of a
French release DVD, captured the vibrant video from that disc, and
then added to it the English soundtrack from the U.S. release
DVD.
Here's a short snippet from
the final project.
