Réne Laloux

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Full Name:

Réne Laloux

Occupation / Title:

Animator, Director, Screenwriter

Date of birth:

13/07/1929

Date of death:

15/03/2004

Birthplace:

Paris, France

Biography

Réne Laloux is a French animator, screenwriter, and director.

Laloux studied painting at the university before working in advertising (Brode 174). Later, Laloux entered La Borde Psychiatric Clinic, where he treated the patients by creating short animations made of woodcarving, puppetry, and a stint (Laloux 50). Some of his early works when working in psychiatric institutions include Tick-Tock (Tic-Tac) (1957), Les Achalunés (1958), The Monkey’s Teeth (Les Dents du singe) (1960), Dead Times (Les Temps morts) (1964), and The Snails (Les Escargots) (1965).

Laloux directed three feature-length animated films with sci-fi themes in the 1970s and 1980s: Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage) (1973), which earned him the Special Award at the Cannes Film Festival; Time Masters (Les Maîtres du temps) (1982), which, like Fantastic Planet, was based on a novel by Stefan Wul; and Gandahar (1987), which had the US release title Light Year.

Laloux died of a heart attack in 2004.

References:

Brode, Douglas. “Fantastic Planet/La Planète Sauvage (1973).” Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents, University of Texas Press, 2015.

Laloux, René. “Fantastic Planet: France/Czechoslovakia, 1973 – 72 Minutes.” 100 Animated Feature Films, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022, pp. 50–51, https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839024450.0025.