LIGHT YEARS

LIGHT YEARS. Rene Laloux, dir. French version. Harvey Weinstein, dir. American version. France/USA: Miramax, 1988. Phillipe Caza, animation designer. Raphael Cluzel, original screenplay, based on Metal Men Against Gandahar by Jean-Pierre Androvan. Isaac Asimov, trans. and adapter. Glenn Close and Christopher Plummer among those doing voices for US release. 83 min.

Animated. Robots vs. a garden world "in the vein of French Metal Hurlant." Discussed in some detail by Daniel M. Kimmel in Cinefantastique 18.5 July 1988): 46 f., upon which we depend for our citation and annotation.