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Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi (The Frogs Who Wanted a King)
Director: Władysław Starewicz Release Date: 1922 Rating: ★★★★★ Review: After the October revolution, Władysław Starewicz fled to France, where he continued to make stop motion films until his death in...
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La planète sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
Director: René Laloux Release Date: May 11, 1973 Rating: ★★★★★ ♕ Review: ‘La planète sauvage’ is an old love of mine. I first watched it when I was ca. six or seven. It took me fifteen years before I...
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La Prisonnière
Director: René Laloux Release Date: 1988 Rating: ★★★★½ Review: ‘La Prisonnière’ is a short, rather surrealistic science fiction film about two children. They visit an extraterrestrial monastery and...
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Une nuit sur le mont chauve (Night on Bald Mountain)
Director: Alexandre Alexeieff Release Date: 1933 Rating: ★★★½ Review: Predating Disney’s film to the same classical piece by seven years, this ‘video clip’ to the music of ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ by...
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Jasmine
Director: Alain Ughetto Release Date: June 10, 2013 Rating: ★★½ Review: After ‘Persepolis’ (2007) ‘Jasmine’ is the second animation film about the Iranian revolution of 1979. In his strongly...
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La flûte magique (The Magical Flute)
Director: Paul Grimault Date: 1946 Rating: ★★★ Review: In this sweet little film, a boy-like minstrel and his misshapen dog disturb a nobleman in a castle. The nobleman destroys the minstrel’s lute,...
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Le petit soldat (The Little Soldier)
Director: Paul Grimault Date: 1947 Rating: ★★★★★ ♕ Review: One of the most poetic animation films ever made, ‘le petit soldat’ is a very inspired re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy...
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Les maîtres du temps (Time Masters)
Director: René Laloux Release date: March 24, 1981 Rating: ★★★★ Review: In the science fiction film ‘Les maîtres du temps’ Jaffar, the muscular pilot of a spaceship, tries to rescue the little orphan...
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Les trois inventeurs (The Three Inventors)
Director: Michel Ocelot Release date: 1979 Rating: ★★★★★ Review: With this animation film Michel Ocelot made his name in the world of animation. In this film he uses elegant cut-out designs with a...
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La légende du pauvre Bossu (The Legend of the Poor Hunchback)
Director: Michel Ocelot Release date: 1982 Rating: ★★★★ Review: Three years after ‘Les trois inventeurs‘, Michel Ocelot returns with another disturbing film contemplating mankind’s narrow-mindedness...
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La planète Omega (The Planet Omega)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: October 9, 1982 Rating: ★★½ Review: After the success of ‘Il était une fois… l’homme’ (Once upon a Time… Man) Albert Barillé returned with the boldest and most...
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Les Sauriens (The Saurians)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: October 16, 1982 Rating: ★ Review: In this second episode of ‘Il était une fois… l’espace’ the feisty little robot Metro gets his name. Metro joins Pierrot and...
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La planète verte (The Green Planet)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: October 23, 1982 Rating: ★★★ Review: Unlike the majority of the episodes of ‘Il était une fois… l’espace’, ‘La planète verte’ starts with politics: we witness a...
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Du côté d’Andromède (Towards Andromeda)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: October 30, 1982 Rating: ★★★ Review: ‘Du côte d’Andromède’ is the first episode of Il était une fois… l’espace in which Pierrot, his love Psi, and the little robot...
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Les Cro-Magnons (The Cro-Magnons)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: November 6, 1982 Rating: ★★★½ Review: This is the fourth episode of ‘Il était une fois… l’espace’ in which the evil constellation of Cassiopeia threatens a green...
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La révolte des robots (The Revolt of the Robots)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: November 6, 1982 Rating: ★★★★★ Review: La révolte de robots’ is the first highlight in the ‘Il était une fois… l’espace’ series. Unlike the earlier episodes the...
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La planète Mytho (The Planet Mytho)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: November 20?, 1982 Rating: ★★ Review: In this seventh episode of ‘Il était une fois… l’espace’ our heroes Pierrot, Psi and Metro land on a planet, where the...
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Le long voyage (The Long Voyage)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: November 27?, 1982 Rating: ★★★★★ Review: ‘Le long voyage’ is a nice episode about space travel. Star of the episode is an ancient forefather of Maestro who, after...
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À Cassiopée (In Cassiopeia)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: December 4?, 1982 Rating: ★★★★ Review: Episode nine of ‘Il était une fois… l’espace’ is closely tied to episode 10 and 11, constituting the first episode-exceeding...
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La planète déchiquetée (A Planet Blown to Pieces)
Director: Albert Barillé Airing date: December 11?, 1982 Rating: ★★★★★ Review: The exciting episode ‘La planète déchiquetée’ undoubtedly is one of the highlights of ‘Il était une fois… l’espace’. It...
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