André Valio-Cavaglione
A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with Laloux from 2001.
India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an object of desire and fascination. The Vice Consul is driven insane by his love for her and, expelled from the ambassador’s palace, cries like a sick animal. Life continues for Anne-Marie Stretter, the same tedious existence…
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
A moralist and surrealist fable in which a group of aristocrats have sole access to a private beach in the midst of Paris, where they enact strange games and stylized gestures.
In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.
